UN tribunal indicts Milosevic

UN tribunal indicts Milosevic

NETHERLANDS: The United Nations war crimes tribunal announced
fresh charges on Tuesday against ousted Yugoslav leader Slobodan
Milosevic for "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia in 1991-1992.

Until now Milosevic, who was handed over to the tribunal in
June, had been accused exclusively of crimes against humanity for
atrocities in Serbia's Kosovo province in 1999.

Prosecutors signed the new Croatia indictment in late
September and the tribunal said in a statement that a judge had
now approved it.

It released the full 21-page text accusing Serb forces of
brutally expelling non-Serb populations from Croatia under a
master plan approved by Milosevic, who is awaiting trial in the
UN detention center near The Hague.

The indictment charged Milosevic on 32 counts, but does not
include the tribunal's gravest charge of genocide. -Reuters