BELGRADE, May 11 (Hina) - The last contact between the army of Serbia-Montenegro and Veselin Sljivancanin, an officer of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal, took place on 16 January this
year, the defence minister of Serbia-Montenegro, Boris Tadic, said.
BELGRADE, May 11 (Hina) - The last contact between the army of
Serbia-Montenegro and Veselin Sljivancanin, an officer of the
former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) indicted by the UN war crimes
tribunal, took place on 16 January this year, the defence minister
of Serbia-Montenegro, Boris Tadic, said. #L#
"Sljivancanin arrived at (military) facilities where he earlier
worked, and an officer told him that he could not appear there any
more. Sljivancanin complained against it, but was no longer seen in
military facilities," the minister was quoted by the local media as
saying on Sunday.
Sljivancanin belongs to the notorious Vukovar Troika, whom the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
indicted for war crimes in that eastern Croatian city in 1991. He is
still on the run while the other two, Miroslav Radic and Mile
Mrksic, have been apprehended.
Tadic added that the last contact with the war-time Bosnian Serb
commander, General Ratko Mladic, whom the ICTY indicted for
genocide in Bosnia, had been made on 15 May 2002. He added that the
data on the contact between Mladic and the army were "the result of
an investigation conducted in the army of Serbia-Montenegro," the
minister said.
"Now we have launched an investigation to see if anybody, who was an
army member, has continued, as a civilian, to harbour the
indictees," Tadic added.
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