The UN war crimes tribunal has made public a previously sealed indictment against a Bosnian Serb charged with genocide for his role in an "ethnic cleansing" campaign in the early 90s.
Stojan Zupljanin, who led the regional Bosnian Serb security forces during the war from 1992 to 1995, is accused of playing a leading role in a crackdown on non-Serbs in the Krajina region on the border of Bosnian and Croatia.
"The indictment against Zupljanin is disclosed following a request from the office of the prosecutor," tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said on Wednesday.
The prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has been insisting for months that the Bosnian Serb be arrested and transferred to The Hague, where the court is based.
The tribunal wants to try Zupljanin with Radoslav Brdanin, the president of the Krajina crisis staff, and the former chief of staff of the Bosnian Serb army, Momir Talic, prosecution spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said.
The three men are charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Brdanin and Talic are already being held in the ICTY's detention center in Scheveningen, close to The Hague.
The indictment was made public because the prosecution believes that many people already know of the charges against Zupljanin so "there is no reason to keep the indictment under seal," Hartman said.
The now public indictment has been transferred to the authorities in Sarajevo who will relay them to the appropriate authorities, Landale said.
According to the office of the prosecutor, Zupljanin is currently in Bosnia's Serb entity, the Republika Srpska (RS) -- THE HAGUE (AFP)
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