As that indictment was amended in the meantime, Todorovic was brought back before the judges on Thursday and asked to plead in regard to 12 additional charges in the second amended indictment. This new indictment charges Todorovic, the former police chief in Bosanski Samac, with persecution of Bosnian Croat, Bosnian Muslim and other non-Serb civilians on political, racial or religious grounds. It also charges him with their unlawful deportation or transfer, as well as with participation in one incident of murder and one of torture, and in three incidents of beatings and three of sexual assaults. Todorovic will be tried before Trial Chamber III, together with Milan Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric, who voluntarily surrendered to the Tribunal last year. The project seeks to contribute to regional and international understanding of the war-crimes prosecution process.
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