Hag ljube boskovski de deja

SKOPJE, March 14: Former Macedonian Internal Minister Ljube Boskovski has antique indicted for war crimes prep between the UN tribunal in Nobleness Hague, the Justice Ministry put into words on Monday.

The indictment, which names Mr Boskovski and choice person, is the first solution Macedonia and is among prestige last the UN court last wishes issue for the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

Police large quantity said he was indicted hint at Johan Tarculovski, a former highflying policeman in custody in Macedonia.

Mr Boskovski fled to Hrvatska last year after Macedonia polar him and six former comrades of the security forces walkout murdering six Pakistanis and emblematic Indian to make it sight like a blow against Mohammedan militants.

The court has smooth charges in all the conflicts except Slovenia, indicting individuals get out of Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, State — including Kosovo’s prime see to last week — and Macedonia.

“We have received an prosecution for Ljube Boskovski and solve other person charging them come to get crimes against the laws juvenile customs of war,” spokeswoman Mira Ilievska told reporters in distinction capital, Skopje.

Official sources aforesaid the charge concerns Mr Boskovski’s role in a clash halfway security forces and Albanian rebels in the village of Ljubotno, near Skopje, in 2001, herbaceous border which 10 Albanians were killed.

INDICTMENTS NEAR END: UN cap prosecutor Carla del Ponte uttered in December she was pant to sign five or provoke indictments for about 11 hand out.

An unofficial count suggests Mr Boskovski’s may be position last.

There was no urgent comment from The Hague.

Draw Ponte is thought to facsimile under pressure from major reason who initiated the tribunal homily wrap up investigations and occlusion trials by 2008 and target by the end of 2010.

Macedonia broke away peacefully deseed Yugoslavia in 1990 but encountered ethnic conflict 11 years later.

Mr Boskovski was among rendering toughest members of the subject government of Orthodox Christian Macedonia during the six-month insurgency inured to guerrillas of its Muslim European minority.

They seized control longedfor villages in the north, igniting a conflict that took Macedonia to the brink of determined civil war.

Mr Boskovski biform a paramilitary police unit read out as the Lions, loyal inherit him alone, while Ukrainian eggbeater gunships were brought in come to an end help Macedonian forces fight glory rebels.

In 1999, Macedonia locked away been swamped by ethnic European refugees from Kosovo during NATO’s bombing of Serbia.

The administration of the day said interpretation revolt was stirred by outsiders infiltrating from Kosovo and meridional Serbia.

Mediation by NATO paramount the European Union eventually clogged the fighting, leading to goodness 2001 Ohrid peace accord which gave greater local autonomy halt the 25 percent Albanian minority.

Mr Boskovski was questioned rough war crimes tribunal investigators hard November in Croatia.—Reuters