Wednesday, May 7, 2008

SERBIAN WAR CRIMINAL GOJKO KLICKOVIC REFUSED TO LEAVE HIS CELL AND APPEAR BEFORE BOSNIAN STATE COURT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (May 7,2008) - Serbian war criminal Gojko Klickovic boycotted his trial yesterday on charges of crimes against humanity, the Bosnian State Court said.

Serbian war criminal Gojko Klickovic, who is charged with war crimes against Croat and Muslim civilians and prisoners of war during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, refused to leave his cell and appear before the Bosnian
State Court.

"I refuse to take part in this trial. My presence is not necessary for this formality, Klickovic said in a statement that was read to the court.
His trial had been scheduled to begin yesterday. Judge Zoran Bozic adjourned the trial until Thursday.

Bozic said the trial will resume "one way or another, as long as Klickovic's lawyer is there to represent him".

Serbian war criminal Gojko Klickovic headed the genocidal Serbian creature in Bosnia "RS"and was arrested in 2006 .The criminal charges against him _ related both to war crimes during the 1992-95 Serbian aggression against Bosnia and to "misuse of office".

The indictment alleges that Klickovic "planned, initiated, ordered and perpetrated" the attack on the territory of Bosanska Krupa, Bosanska Otoka and Ostruznica, when a large number of Bosnian civilians were murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor, while their houses were pillaged and set on fire.

According to the indictment, Serbian war criminal Gojko Klickovic was also responsible for criminal offences committed by his subordinates, whose acts he "could control in reality", and for having failed to undertake the necessary measures in order to punish the perpetrators of those crimes.

He is also charged with the detention of many Bosnian civilians who were held, in inhumane conditions, in "Jasenica" elementary school, "Petar Kocic" school and the concentration camp in Kamenica, in Drvar municipality, from April to November 1992.
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