Dokument #1162107
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
According to a 6 February 1998 Agence
France Presse (AFP) news dispatch, rebel Muslim leader Fikret
Abdic, "a wealthy businessman," has been living in Croatia since
the end of the conflict and is currently facing charges of having
committed war crimes in Bosnia. One of his associates, Ibrahim
Djedovic, was arrested in May 1997 in Sarajevo while performing his
duties as elected member of the Bosnian parliament, and appeared in
court on 6 February 1998 for crimes committed against civilians and
prisonners of war in 1994 (ibid.).
According to a Los Angeles Times
article published in the 2 November 1997 issue of The Dallas
Morning News, Fikret Abdic and his followers are considered as
"absolute enemies of Bosnia-Herzegovina."
A 9 December 1997 Warreport
article states that Fikret Abdic's Democratic People's Union (DNZ)
won the September 1997 municipal elections in Velika Kladusa, near
Bihac, and that most of the DNZ elected deputies were living in
Croatia.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
Agence France Presse (AFP). 6 February
1998. "Rebel Moslem Aide in Court for Crimes Against Bosnian
Civilians." (NEXIS)
The Dallas Morning News. 2
November 1997. Tracy Wilkinson. "Alleged Traitor's Fate Tests
Bosnia Justice; Rights Groups Question Imprisonment of Legislator
by Mostly Muslim Government." (NEXIS)
Warreport [London, in English].
9 December 1997. "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Elections Results not Being
Implemented." (FBIS-EEU-97-343 17 Dec. 1997/WNC)