(21 Feb 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Visegrad road sign
2. Visegrad town
3. Various of Visegrad street scene
4. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Bakira Hasecic:
"There is no punishment that can fit the crime he committed on me and other girls in Visegrad, but we trust the Hague war crimes tribunal, and I think they will do their work
appropriately"
5. People standing in Visegrad street
6. SOUNDBITE: (Serb) NAME UNKNOWN, Vox pop:
"Usually it is the Serbs who are being punished at the Hague. I haven't seen many other nations being punished so much.'
7. Visegrad bridge
STORYLINE
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Milan Lukic, accused of some of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war, was handed over to the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Tuesday, five months after he was detained in Argentina.
Lukic, aged 38, will stand trial at the U.N. court on charges of murder and persecution during the early 1990s.
He is expected to appear before a U.N. judge later this week when he will be asked to enter a plea of guilty or innocent.
U.N. prosecutors say that as a member of the notorious "Avengers" paramilitary group Lukic participated in the murders of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims, including an incident where 70 people were allegedly burned alive on June 14, 1992, in the Bosnian town of Visegrad. Among those killed were children and the elderly, according to prosecutors.
Bakira Hasecic, a Bosnian Muslim woman, was allegedly raped by Serb forces in Visegrad in 1992 told AP Television News, "there is no punishment that can fit the crime he committed on me and other girls." But Hasecic said she "trusts" the war crimes tribunal to do their work appropriately.
In all, Lukic's indictment lists 21 war crimes counts, each carrying a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. Lukic was arrested in August in Buenos Aires where he has been detained pending his extradition.
His indictment accuses Lukic of establishing a paramilitary unit which worked with local police and military units in exacting a reign of terror upon the local Muslim population.
It says the group included his cousin and friends and was often referred to as the 'White Eagles' and 'avengers,'
An annex to the indictment lists the names of 86 alleged victims, ranging from as young as two days to 75 years old.
Lukic was sentenced in absentia last year by a Serbian court for his role in abducting 16 Muslims from a bus in eastern Serbia in 1992. They were taken to Bosnia where they were tortured and executed. He received a 20-year sentence.
He was indicted by the U.N. court in 1998 along with his cousin, Sredoje who is 43.
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