24 Aug 2011

ICTY / GORAN HADZIC

Goran Hadzic appeared before the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today in the Hague, Netherlands. The former wartime leader pleaded not guilty to the charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands more in one of the first Balkan conflicts. ICTY

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STORY: ICTY / GORAN HADZIC
TRT: .50
SOURCE: ICTY
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SERBIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 24 AUGUST 2011, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

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RECENT 2011, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY), THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

1. Wide shot, ICTY building

23 AUGUST 2011, THE HAGUE, NEATHERLANDS

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Guy Delvoie, ICTY:
"We'll now ask you Mr. Hadzic to plea to the charges contained within the indictment. Could you please stand up for a moment."
2. Med shot, Goran Hadzic stands up
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Guy Delvoie, ICTY:
"Mr. Hadzic how do you plea to the charges contained within the indictment?"
4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) General Gortan Hadzic, former Prime Minister of Eastern Slavonia and former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina:
"Not guilty your honour"
5. Med shot, Hadzic sits down
6. Wide shot, court bench
7. Med shot, Hadzic

STORYLINE:

Goran Hadzic appeared before the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today in the Hague, Netherlands.

The former wartime leader pleaded not guilty to the charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands more in one of the first Balkan conflicts.

Goran Hadzic, former President of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK), and former Prime Minister of Eastern Slavonia stands accused of participating in a joint criminal enterprise – along with the late former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and three others – to permanently remove a majority of the Croat and other non-Serb population from about a third of the territory of Croatia, with the aim of establishing a new Serb-dominated State.

The indictment states that Hadzic was involved in the removal of 264 civilians from a hospital in Vukovar in November 1991 after the Serb takeover of the city. The civilians were transported to several locations where they were beaten and tortured before being executed and buried in a mass grave at a remote site.

The allegations also include that Mr. Hadžic was responsible for the imprisonment of thousands of civilians in a number of detention facilities.

Hadžic will be the last of 161 persons indicted by the ICTY to come before the court.