Six Bosnian Croats on trial at UN war crimes tribunal

Six senior ethnic Croatian politicians and military officers go on trial at the UN Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, today on charges of torturing, killing and expelling Muslims in south-eastern Bosnia to create an ethnically pure Croatian republic.

Former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who died in 1999, was named in the indictment as the driving force behind the plan for a Greater Croatia that would embrace a self-proclaimed Croatian republic in Bosnia led by the six men.