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Ex-EU Envoy Owen Likely Prosecution Witness At Karadzic Trial
THE HAGUE (AFP)--David Owen, European Union special envoy to the former
Yugoslavia, is likely to be called as a prosecution witness in the trial of
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, a court document said
Thursday.
"The prosecution wishes to notify the trial chamber and the accused that
Owen remains on the...witness list and that the prosecution intends to call
him as a witness at trial," said a notification published by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
On Monday, the court rejected a prosecution motion to have Owen called as a
neutral witness in a bid to avoid compromising the perceived neutrality of
future international negotiators. Neutral witnesses are called by the court
itself, rather than by the prosecution or defense.
Owen, a former U.K. foreign secretary, was one of the authors of the Vance-
Owen peace plan in 1993 which failed to put an end to the Bosnian war.
Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade in July last year after 13 years on the
run. He faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity,
which he denies.
Bosnia's inter-ethnic war cost 100,000 lives and left the country split into
two highly autonomous entities - the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs'
Republika Srpska.
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