- guardian.co.uk, Sunday February 17 2002 01.11 GMT
- The Observer, Sunday February 17 2002
Bosnia
Prosecutors accuse Milosevic of committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia as well as breaches of the Geneva Conventions. The indictment says he was responsible for the widespread killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. It cites the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, where 'almost all captured Bosnian Muslim men and boys, altogether several thousands, were executed at the places where they had been captured or at sites to which they had been transported for execution'. It accuses Milosevic of involvement in the murder, imprisonment and subjection to inhumane living conditions and forced labour of 'thousands of Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians, including women and the elderly'. Milosevic 'knowingly and wilfully' participated in a joint criminal enterprise in Bosnia.
Croatia
Milosevic is accused of crimes against humanity in Croatia between 1991 and 1992. He is held responsible for murders of hundreds of civilians and the expulsion of 170,000 non-Serbs from their home towns including atrocities committed in the town of Vukovar. Milosevic allegedly planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation or execution of the persecution of Croat and other non-Serb civilians.
Kosovo
The former Serbian leader and four of his colleagues face charges over actions in the province of Kosovo between January and June 1999 including crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war,alleged to include the deportation of 800,000 Kosovo Albanians and the murders of about 600 individually identified ethnic Albanians.
The indictment has also been amended to take into account mass graves found outside Belgrade and charges stemming from sexual violence allegedly committed by Serb soldiers. Milosevic, as commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav army, had direct responsibility.
