Bosnian Croat pleads not guilty to massacre charges

A Bosnian Croat man has made his first appearance before the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague after his arrest by Dutch NATO troops last month.

The man, Vlato Kupreskic, pleaded not guilty to charges of taking part in a massacre of more than one hundred Muslim civilians in central Bosnia in 1993.

He denied the specific charge that he had shot and killed a woman who was trying to escape with her family.Mr Kupreskic was wounded after he opened fire on the NATO troops who came to arrest him at his home in central Bosnia last month.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service