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Bosnia: Eu And Nato Operation To Flush Out Karadic 'helpers'
 The European Union peacekeeping force, EUFOR, and NATO on Monday carried a joint operation with local security personnel in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina to hunt for individuals accused of forming a network to shield the country's fugitive wartime leader and top war crime indictee, Radovan Karadic, EUFOR announced. The home of a former Socialist Party of Serbia party member, Nemanja Vasic, was searched in Prnjavor, in the Bosnian Serb entity, EUFOR said. Searches were also carried out of a company and a bar owned by Vasic. The purpose of the swoop was to obtain further information on Karadic's hiding-place. He and fellow top war crimes indictee, Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic have been indicted for genocide by the Hague war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in connection with the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, and the 43-month siege of Sarajevo, in which more than 10,000 people were killed. Both Karadic and Mladic have been on the run for a decade. ICTY chief Carla del Ponte said last month she believes Mladic is hiding in Serbia. The European Union has said Balkan nations such as Serbia and Bosnia, which aspire to join the 25-member bloc must cooperate fully with the ICTY and ensure indictees are arrested and handed over to the court to stand trial.
Posted by: Fred 2006-03-16 |
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