SARAJEVO, March 28 (Hina) - The Bosnian Serb army had spies in Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and was involved in organising the assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic, the Sarajevo-based daily "Dnevni avaz"
and Banja Luka's "Nezavisne novine" reported on Friday.
SARAJEVO, March 28 (Hina) - The Bosnian Serb army had spies in
Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and was involved
in organising the assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic,
the Sarajevo-based daily "Dnevni avaz" and Banja Luka's "Nezavisne
novine" reported on Friday. #L#
Quoting an unnamed international official in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
the two highest-circulation Bosnian dailies reported that evidence
proving the army's espionage and conspiracy plans was discovered in
a raid of the army's intelligence facilities by SFOR troops in Banja
Luka on March 7.
"Dnevni avaz" claims that the discovered written and computer
documents contain encrypted information on intelligence
activities in Croatia and the Croat-Muslim Federation as well as
reports from closed-door meetings of international
representatives in the country.
According to the source who passed the information on this
discovery to the media, it is evident that army intelligence agents
were well informed about the activities of both the Croatian and
Federation authorities.
They are also believed to have acted in coordination with the
Yugoslav army counter-intelligence.
"Nezavisne novine" reports that the discovered documents pointed
to the Bosnian Serb intelligence being part of a network that
organised Djindjic's murder.
Djindjic's assassination, according to the documents, was to
introduce a coup d'etat in Serbia. Additional evidence about the
conspiracy was allegedly recently discovered by the Serbian
police.
It has also been established that the Bosnian Serb intelligence
followed and intimidated people who were to testify before the U.N.
war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
The incriminating evidence was discovered in the offices of the
Republika Srpska parliament building which were used by the
intelligence's 410th centre.
"Nezavisne novine" says it is evident that the intelligence
department had much closer ties with the counter-intelligence in
Belgrade than with Bosnian Serb authorities, but adds that such
activities could not have taken place without the knowledge of at
least part of the Bosnian Serb leadership.
The evidence found by the SFOR will be discussed at a session of the
steering committee of the Council for the Implementation of the
Dayton Accords, which is in session in Brussels.
The affair will increase pressure on the Bosnian Serb leadership
which has recently faced serious accusations of involvement in
illegal arms trade with Iraq.
(hina) rml