IN TRIAL CHAMBERS

Before:
Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
1 December 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

DRAGOLJUB KUNARAC
RADOMIR KOVAC

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ORDER
GRANTING LEAVE TO FILE A THIRD AMENDED INDICTMENT AND
CONFIRMING THE THIRD AMENDED INDICTMENT

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Dirk Ryneveld

 

I, Lal Chand Vohrah, Judge of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("the International Tribunal"), in Chambers,

NOTING the original indictment against Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac and six other accused, confirmed by me on 26 June 1996,

NOTING the amended indictment against Dragoljub Kunarac confirmed by me on 19 August 1998,

NOTING the amended indictment against Dragoljub Kunarac and Radomir Kovac confirmed by me on 3 September 1999,

NOTING Trial Chamber II’s Decision on the Form of the Indictment in which the Prosecutor was directed to amend the amended indictment of 3 September 1999 as set out paragraphs 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24 and 25 of that Decision,

CONSIDERING the "Motion for Leave to File an Amended Indictment" ("the Motion") and the attached "Amended Indictment" against Dragoljub Kunarac and Radomir Kovac, filed by the Prosecutor on 8 November 1999,

PURSUANT to Article 19 of the Statute and Rules 47 and 50(A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY GRANT THE APPLICATION BY

  1. Authorising the Prosecutor to amend the amended indictment of 3 September 1999 within the limits specified in the Motion, and
  2. Confirming the third amended indictment in respect of each and every count therein.

 

Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.

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Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Dated this first day of December 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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