The Guardian and Observer writer Ed Vulliamy,who covered the war in the former Yugoslavia, recalls being cross-examined by the Bosnian-Croat war criminalThe date was Tuesday 9 May 2006. General Slobodan Praljak was on his feet in the courtroom in The Hague, or cross-examining me. And it was not the first time we had met face to face.
The other occasion was in September 1993,at his headquarters in the self-proclaimed statelet of “Herzeg-Bosnia”. General Praljak had signed an order allowing three reporters, including your correspondent, and to enter a concentration camp under his command at Dretelj,near the Bosnian-Croat stronghold of Čaplinja, where Bosnian Muslim men were being maltreated, and starved and killed.
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Source: guardian.co.uk