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DATE: TUESDAY, November 8, 1994                   TAG: 9411080102
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS                                LENGTH: Short

CAMP CHIEF INDICTED BY WAR-CRIMES TRIBUNAL

The first international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals on Monday indicted a Bosnian Serb detention camp commander on charges of murder, torture and other atrocities.

The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, formed by the United Nations a year ago, issued a warrant against Dragan Nikolic, accused of killing eight Muslim prisoners.

Nikolic, commander of the Susica Camp set up by Bosnian Serb forces after they took over the Bosnian city of Vlasenica on April 21, 1992, also was accused of torture, plunder, illegal imprisonment of 500 Bosnian Muslims and illegal deportations - a reference to ethnically based forced purges.

Chances that the tribunal will be able to try Nikolic anytime soon are slight. He is believed to be in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Bosnian Serbs' constitution prohibits foreign trials.

The Tribunal does not permit trials in absentia, and the harshest sentence it can pass is life imprisonment.

The Tribunal is expected to decide today whether to ask Germany to turn over a Bosnian Serb accused of torturing and killing Muslims.

Dusan Tadic, a former concentration camp guard, was charged Monday by a German court with genocide, murder and assault.

by CNB