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Bosnian police arrested a wartime Muslim army commander on Tuesday on charges of failing to prevent crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during a 1992-1995 war. The arrest of 63-year-old retiree Sakib Mahmuljin was carried out on orders of the state war crimes prosecutor, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. "The suspect is under investigation for acting in contravention of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions while serving as a commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of BiH," it said. Mahmuljin has denied the charges during earlier proceedings. Many Islamic fighters,...

05 09 2007 Sarajevo_ For the first time since the Hague Tribunal was established, its judges are to conduct a hearing away from its courtrooms when a foreign Islamic fighter testifies in the trial of former Bosnian army general Rasim Delic in Sarajevo. According to a press release from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Ali Ahmed Ali Hamad (also known as Ubejda), a former member of the El Mujaheed Unit who is currently jailed in Bosnia, will be cross-examined in Sarajevo, at a hearing starting on September 7. The hearing, to take place at the premises...

Rasim Delic, one of the few Bosnian Muslims to be indicted by the UN court for the former Yugoslavia, went on trial here on Monday accused of war crimes committed by Islamic volunteers under his command. Delic, former commander of the main staff of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army, stands accused of failing to rein in fighters who shot, tortured and beheaded Bosnian Serb and Croat prisoners during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. "As supreme commander of the army he failed in his duty to prevent these crimes," prosecutor Daryl Mundis said in his opening statement. "These failures, this inaction is...