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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Nov 10 (AFP) - Bosnian Serb former prisoners of war are planning to visit the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague to provide "evidence" against Croats and Muslims, a POW association said Monday. The Republika Srpska Association of Detainees said a delegation of former prisoners would present unspecified information about alleged war crimes during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict when they visit The Hague on Wednesday. The association says it represents some 50,000 Serb former POWs and claims that there were 536 detention camps where Serbs were imprisoned in Bosnia during the war. The Serb-run Republika Srpska, which...

Commissioner of the Hague International Tribunal Vanessa Le Roa has recently demanded the delivery of the Russian military men who had volunteered to wage war in Bosnia. The judge complained that Russia was not willing to discuss the issue on the international level yet. Vanessa Le Roa affirmed, up to 700 Russian military men were waging war in Yugoslavia ten years ago. Investigators of The Hague Tribunal have allegedly collected enough evidence to prove Russian military men's participation in punitive operations against Muslims and Croatians. Mikhail Polikarpov - a historian and a participant of the Bosnian war - has written...

ZAGREB, Oct. 3 — Croatia looked set on Friday to extend its fishing jurisdiction to one half of the Adriatic, in a move likely to anger neighbours Italy and Slovenia and possibly slow down Zagreb's European Union membership drive.