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The Tribunal Mechanism grants early release to war crimes convict Berislav Pušić

FENA Press release

THE HAGUE, April 24 (FENA) - Berislav Pušić, who was convicted of wartime crimes alongside five other senior officials from the unrecognized Bosnian Croat-led Herceg-Bosnia statelet, has been granted early release.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday granted early release to Berislav Pušić after he served two-thirds of his ten-year sentence for committing wartime crimes from 1992 to 1994.

“Although I have taken into consideration the gravity of the crime for which he was found guilty, I have also considered the fact that Pušić has evidently accepted the responsibility for those crimes and I consider he has demonstrated the signs of rehabilitation,” said the decision by the president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Theodor Meron, BIRN reports.

Meron also said that there were health reasons for giving early release to Pusić, who was the head of the wartime Bosnian Croat prisoner exchange commission.

In November last year, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia convicted Pušić of participating in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at persecuting and ethnically cleansing Bosniaks from Herceg-Bosna, alongside Jadranko Prlić, Bruno Stojić, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoje Petković and Valentin Ćorić.

The court said the six Bosnian Croat officials wanted to annex the territory to a 'Greater Croatia'.

While the verdict was being read out, Praljak drank poison in the courtroom and died soon afterwards. The others are serving their sentences.

(FENA) S. R.

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