Bosnian Serb commander Dragan Obrenovic will appear before the UN war crimes tribunal tomorrow to enter his plea against charges that he was involved in the massacre of more than 5,000 Muslim men and boys during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
Mr Obrenovic, arrested on Sunday by NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops, will make his first appearance at 3 p.m. (1 p.m. Irish time), the tribunal said today. The indictment against him contains five counts of complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war.
Dragan Obrenovic participated in a criminal plan and enterprise, the common purpose of which was to detain, capture and summarily execute by firing squad and bury over 5,000 Muslim men and boys from the Srebrenica enclave, it said.
Mr Obrenovic was in charge of the Zvornik Brigade at the time of the notorious Srebrenica massacre, widely regarded as the worst atrocity to take place in Europe since the end of World War Two.