SARAJEVO, Jan 16 (Hina) - People supporting and protecting war criminals, including Radovan Karadzic, will be subject to pressure from the international community and local authorities in Bosnia aimed at preventing such activities, a
spokesman for the international High Representative to the country, Oleg Milisic, said in Sarajevo Thursday.
SARAJEVO, Jan 16 (Hina) - People supporting and protecting war
criminals, including Radovan Karadzic, will be subject to pressure
from the international community and local authorities in Bosnia
aimed at preventing such activities, a spokesman for the
international High Representative to the country, Oleg Milisic,
said in Sarajevo Thursday. #L#
Confirming that High Representative Paddy Ashdown forcefully
advocated a new kind of approach to the apprehension of war
criminals, including Karadzic, Milisic said that this also meant
thwarting the network protecting such persons. Also, the
international community will continue with efforts to see those
sought by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague arrested.
This will be targeted pressure on networks and individuals who are
certainly connected with organised crime, said Milisic.
The announced pressure on Karadzic's associates will in any case
have a political and financial dimension, and measures which will
be undertaken should not harm the common people in the Bosnian Serb
entity.
A spokeswoman for the Banja Luka section of Ashdown's office, Sonja
Pastuovic, said Wednesday there was data about financial support to
Karadzic being secured via customs embezzlements.
Earlier this week, Ashdown said the Serb entity's authorities had
failed to cooperate in apprehending war criminals. He added the
Serb Democratic Party was the most accountable for this.
The spokeswoman of the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Florance Hartmann,
said recently that most of the 24 indictees who were still at large
were hiding in Republika Srpska and Yugoslavia.
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