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AFP. 12 April 2002. Hundreds demonstrate in Belgrade against war crimes bill. BELGRADE -- Around 300 supporters of Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian Socialist Party demonstrated in Belgrade Friday after a senior party member attempted suicide rather than face extradiction to the UN war crimes tribunal. The protesters are angry at a new law adopted by the Yugoslav parliament which will see war crimes suspects handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. The legislation officially entered into force Friday. The demonstration, held in front of the federal parliament in the capital, comes after Vlajko Stojiljkovic, a close confidant of Milosevic and former interior minister shot himself in the head outside the Yugoslav parliament on Thursday evening. Waving Serbian and Yugoslav flags, the demonstators shouted "Vlajko, Out hero," in what a leading socialist member Oskar Kovac said was only the first of a number of planned demonstrations scheduled to be held across Yugoslavia. "Stojiljkovic did not commit suicide, he has been killed by the war crimes law," Kovac told a press conference in Belgrade. The former minister was said to be in a critical state early Friday afternoon. Stojiljkovic has been charged by the tribunal alongside Milosevic and three others for his part in atrocities committed by Serb troops in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. The new legislation will allow for the transfer of Yugoslav nationals who have been indicted by the tribunal as well as non-Yugoslavs wanted by the court who are found to be living in the country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
