Prosecutor Bramertz reax to Karadzic threat to boycott trial скачать в хорошем качестве

Prosecutor Bramertz reax to Karadzic threat to boycott trial

(22 Oct 2009) SHOTLIST 1. Pan of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) officials leaving court to wide of ICTY building 2. Close-up of UN flag 3. Nerma Jelacic, ICTY Spokesperson, walking 4. Cutaway of ICTY plaque reading "International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia" 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nerma Jelacic, ICTY Spokesperson: "As far as the start trial of Radovan Karadzic is concerned, we did receive a submission from the accused in which he informed the trial chamber that he would not be appearing in the courtroom on Monday the 26th of October. Since then the trial chamber has decided to go ahead as scheduled, so the proceedings that had been scheduled for Monday at 9.00 am will take place as previously communicated." 6. Officials leaving court 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nerma Jelacic, ICTY Spokesperson: "Should there be any decisions about the trial commencement to be made, it will have to be made by the judges not party to the proceedings 8. Jelacic leaving 9. Chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz in his office 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Serge Brammertz, Chief prosecutor: "As far as the prosecution is concerned we are ready to start. It will be on Monday hopefully, if it's not on Monday it will be another day, but what is important is that the trial will take place. I hope that very soon we can concentrate not anymore on procedural issues but on the crimes allegedly committed by him and others in the region so that we really can come to the essence of this case and speak more about the crimes committed to the victims." 11. Cutaway of dossier file, reading "Final Trial Brief" 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Serge Brammertz, Chief prosecutor: "This whole office, the victims community and the international community was waiting 13 years to have him arrested. This was in July last year. We are now 15 months more advanced. We are ready to have this trial starting but as I said it's up to the judges to decide on Monday what will happen." 13. Pan of ICTY building exterior STORYLINE Radovan Karadzic has threatened to boycott his genocide trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, saying in a letter released on Thursday he needed more time to prepare. The former Bosnian Serb leader told judges at the UN Court in The Hague that he should have been given two years to get ready for the "gigantic" case. "The biggest, most complex, important and sensitive case ever before this tribunal is about to begin without proper preparation," he wrote. Tribunal spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic said his trial would still start Monday "as previously scheduled," despite the boycott threat. That sets up the prospect of the court's biggest trial since its ill-fated prosecution of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic starting without the suspect in court. Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006 before a verdict could be reached in his four-year trial for atrocities throughout the wars, which erupted as the former Yugoslavia crumbled in the 1990s. Karadzic is charged with 11 counts of genocide and war crimes for masterminding Serb atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war when an estimated 100,000 people were killed. He is accused of orchestrating crimes, including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men in the U.N.-protected Srebrenica enclave and the deadly campaign of shelling and sniping during the siege of Sarajevo. He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted. In his six-page letter, Karadzic tells judges assigned to his trial he is not ready, and "therefore I shall not appear before you on that date." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...