ICTY Prosecutor Charges Milosevic with Genocide in Third Superseding Indictment

On November 22, 2001, the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugolavia issued its third superseding and most serious indictment, charging former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in connection with the war in Bosnia in 1992-95. The new indictment charges Mr. Milosevic with 29 courts, including complicity to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Genava Conventions. The first two indictments charge Milosevic with perpetrating war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and Croatia in 1991. On November 12, 2001, the ICTY prosecutors submitted the new indictment after years of preparation. The new On November 16, 2001, Judge Richard May of Britain, who has presided over the case against Mr. Milosevic, confirmed the new indictment on behalf of the ICTY. Carla Del Ponte, the Chief ICTY prosecutor, has said she will ask the ICTY judges to join the three indictments so that Mr. Milosevic can be tried in a single trial.