Norway tries Bosnian Muslim for war crimes
Reuters <http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKLR57672920080827> UK August 27 2008 A court in Norway began the landmark trial on Wednesday of a Bosnian Muslim accused of war crimes against Serb civilians in 1992 during the war in former Yugoslavia, officials said It is the first war crimes trial in Norway since those after World War Two for Nazi collaboration. The 42-year-old man, who came to Norway in 1993 as an asylum-seeker and obtained Norwegian citizenship in 2001, is charged with assaulting, imprisoning and torturing civilians as a member of the Croatian Defence Forces. Some of the crimes in the indictment took place at the Dretelj prison camp in southern Bosnia. Norway introduced legislation in March this year enabling war crimes trials to be held in Norwegian courts even if the events concerned took place outside the country. Arguments were expected to (...) Posted August 27th, 2008 by ik ยป
