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Dusko Sikirica's initial Appearance scheduled for Friday 7 July 2000.

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Press Release
(Exclusively for the use of the media. Not an official document)
The Hague, 4 July 2000
JL/P.I.S./515-e

Dusko Sikirica's initial Appearance scheduled for Friday 7 July 2000.

Please be advised that Dusko Sikirica’s initial appearance before Trial Chamber III will take place on Friday 7 July 2000 at 1430 hours in Courtroom I, where he will be asked to enter a plea to the charges contained in the indictment against him. All media are welcome to attend.

Please also note that an amended indictment was confirmed on 30 August 1999 and kept under seal until his detention and transfer to The Hague on 25 June 2000.

In the amended indictment, Sikirica is charged on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility, as well as superior criminal responsibility with two counts of genocide, three counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of violations of the laws or customs of war for his alleged role as commander of the Keraterm prison camp in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina.