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Article: U.N. Indicts Bosnian Serb General; Djukic Accused of Key Role in Shelling of Sarajevo Civilian Targets
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- The Washington Post
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- March 2, 1996
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The United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
indicted a senior Bosnian Serb officer for war crimes today,
accusing him of playing a critical role behind the intensive
shelling of civilian targets in the Bosnian capital.
The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague charged
Gen. Djordje Djukic, a chief deputy to Bosnian Serb commander Ratko
Mladic, with supervising artillery barrages from 1992 to 1995 in
which more than 10,000 people are believed to have died. He is also
believed to have been responsible for managing logistics and the
flow of supplies from Serbia to Serb forces inside Bosnia.
As head of logistics for the Bosnian Serbs, Djukic is a prize
suspect because ...