288 波斯尼亚战犯嫌疑人涉及穆斯林高级军官

 

 

Latest Bosian War Crimes Suspects Include High Ranking Muslims

Stefan Bos

Budapest

3 Aug 2001 02:56 UTC

 

The government of the Muslim-Croat 1)federation¹ within Bosnia-Herzegovina says it has arrested three Muslim military officers wanted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. At least two of them reportedly have already been handed over to The Hague tribunal.

The Muslim-Croat federation authorities said late Thursday that two retired² army generals and an active 2)brigadier 3)voluntarily 4)surrendered to local police, after they had been served with the Constitutional Court's 5)extradition³ decision. Government officials said the Court ordered their 6)detention⁴ and 7)subsequent extradition on the basis of secret indictments⁵ and arrest warrants from the Netherlands-based tribunal.

Prosecution⁶ spokeswoman Florence Hartmann confirmed to the Associated Press that 8)indictments have been handed to authorities in Sarajevo, but she refused to release names or other details. In a statement, the government named the generals as Mehmed Alagic and Enver Hadzihasanovic and the brigadier as Amir Kubura.

Muslim-Croat federation police reportedly detained the former generals early Thursday and soon 9)escorted them to flights to The Hague. But police officials were not available for comment or confirmation⁷. Observers say that generals Alagic and Hadzihasanovic would be the highest-ranking Muslims so far to be transferred to the U.N. Tribunal on 10)suspicion of war-crimes.

General Alagic was reportedly arrested at his family home in Sanski Most while General Hadzihasanovic was picked up in his home in Sarajevo. Ministry⁸ of Defense⁹ officials said Brigadier Kubura, a 11)wartime commander of the so-called seventh Muslim brigade of the Bosnian Army, was also detained in the Bosnian Capital.

General Alagic retired after the war and was elected head of the Sanski Most 12)municipality. He was later removed from the post and earlier this year sentenced by a local court to four years in prison on charges of abuse of power. General Hadzihasanovic held several army posts during the war and became commander of the Third Corps¹⁰. He was then promoted to the post of chief of staff of the Muslim-Croat federation army's joint¹¹ command, before retiring last year.

The latest developments are seen as a sign that the Muslim-Croat federation, one of two highly-autonomous entities¹² in ethnically-divided Bosnia-Herzegovina, is willing to cooperate with The Hague Tribunal.

In 1996, the federation arrested and extradited to The Hague two Muslims who were later sentenced to 15 and 20 years in prison for war crimes they committed against Serbs in a detention camp near Sarajevo, during the war.

The other entity¹³, the Serb Republic, only last month 13)drafted a proposed law on cooperation with The Hague tribunal. But the law has not received final approval and the Serb Republic has not yet arrested any war crimes suspects, although most of about 40 wanted men are believed to be hiding there.

NATO-led peacekeepers have arrested about 20 Bosnian Serb and Croat war crimes suspects since 1996. However tribunal prosecutors¹⁴ have pressured NATO to do more to arrest the key war crimes suspects, former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and his wartime 14)military advisor¹⁵ Ratko Mladic. Both wartime leaders have been indicted¹⁶, but remain 15)at large.

 

 

(1)      federation[fedE5reIF(E)n]n.同盟, 联邦, 联合, 联盟

(2)      brigadier[brI^E5dIE(r)]n.旅长, 陆军准将

(3)      voluntarily[5vRlEntErIlI]adv.自动地, 以自由意志

(4)      surrender[sE5rendE(r)]vt.放弃, 使投降vi.投降, 自首n.交出, 放弃, 投降

(5)      extradition[9ekstrE`dIFEn]n.(根据条约或法令对逃犯等的)引渡

(6)      detention[dI5tenF(E)n]n.拘留, 禁闭, 阻止, 滞留, 留堂

(7)      subsequent[5sQbsIkwEnt]adj.后来的, 并发的

(8)      indictment[In5daItmEnt]n.控告

(9)      escort[5eskC:t]n.护卫(队), 护送, 陪同(人员) v.护卫, 护送, 陪同

(10)      suspicion[sE`spIFEn]n.猜疑, 怀疑

(11)      wartime[5wC:taIm]n.战时

(12)      municipality[mju:nIsI5pAlItI]n.市政当局, 自治市

(13)      draft[drB:ft; (?@) drAft]n.草稿, 草案vt.起草, 设计v.草拟

(14)      military[5mIlItErI; (?@) -terI]adj.军事的, 军用的

(15)    at large adv.未被捕, 详尽, 普遍

 

 

1 federation   

n.同盟，联邦，联合，联盟，联合会

参考例句：

• It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
• Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。

2 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

3 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

4 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

5 indictments   

n.（制度、社会等的）衰败迹象( indictment的名词复数 )；刑事起诉书；公诉书；控告

参考例句：

• A New York jury brought criminal indictments against the founder of the organization. 纽约的一个陪审团对这个组织的创始人提起了多项刑事诉讼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These two indictments are self-evident and require no elaboration. 这两条意义自明，无须多说。 来自互联网

6 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

7 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

10 corps   

n.(通信等兵种的)部队；(同类作的)一组

参考例句：

• The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

11 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

12 entities   

实体对像； 实体，独立存在体，实际存在物( entity的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

13 entity   

n.实体，独立存在体，实际存在物

参考例句：

• The country is no longer one political entity.这个国家不再是一个统一的政治实体了。
• As a separate legal entity,the corporation must pay taxes.作为一个独立的法律实体，公司必须纳税。

14 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

15 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

16 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。