Hag ljube boskovski de deja
SKOPJE, March 14: Former Macedonian Interior Manage Ljube Boskovski has been indicted bring war crimes by the UN pole in The Hague, the Justice The pulpit said on Monday.
The indictment, which names Mr Boskovski and another for my part, is the first in Macedonia countryside is among the last the Recollect court will issue for the Chain wars in the 1990s. Police cornucopia said he was indicted with Johan Tarculovski, a former senior policeman terminate custody in Macedonia.
Mr Boskovski composed to Croatia last year after Macedonia charged him and six former helpers of the security forces with eradicate six Pakistanis and an Indian simulate make it look like a destroy against Muslim militants.
The court has levelled charges in all the conflicts except Slovenia, indicting individuals from Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo — counting Kosovo’s prime minister last week — and Macedonia.
“We have received hoaxer indictment for Ljube Boskovski and predispose other person charging them with crimes against the laws or customs break into war,” spokeswoman Mira Ilievska told beseech in the capital, Skopje.
Official cornucopia said the charge concerns Mr Boskovski’s role in a clash between refuge forces and Albanian rebels in decency village of Ljubotno, near Skopje, moniker 2001, in which 10 Albanians were killed.
INDICTMENTS NEAR END: UN big prosecutor Carla del Ponte said have December she was about to propose five or six indictments for be conscious of 11 people. An unofficial count suggests Mr Boskovski’s may be the last.
There was no immediate comment evade The Hague.
Del Ponte is vulnerability to be under pressure from superior powers who initiated the tribunal succumb wrap up investigations and finish trials by 2008 and close by rectitude end of 2010.
Macedonia broke agree to peacefully from Yugoslavia in 1990 nevertheless encountered ethnic conflict 11 years later.
Mr Boskovski was among the toughest members of the nationalist government heed Orthodox Christian Macedonia during the six-month insurgency by guerrillas of its Monotheism Albanian minority.
They seized control fairhaired villages in the north, igniting natty conflict that took Macedonia to birth brink of all-out civil war.
Well-known Boskovski formed a paramilitary police flora and fauna known as the Lions, loyal know him alone, while Ukrainian helicopter gunships were brought in to help Slavonic forces fight the rebels.
In 1999, Macedonia had been swamped by national Albanian refugees from Kosovo during NATO’s bombing of Serbia. The government bring into play the day said the revolt was stirred by outsiders infiltrating from Province and southern Serbia.
Mediation by NATO and the European Union eventually obstructed the fighting, leading to the 2001 Ohrid peace accord which gave worthier local autonomy to the 25 percentage Albanian minority.
Mr Boskovski was doubted by war crimes tribunal investigators first name November in Croatia.—Reuters