SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, June 13 (Hina) - Local police in the north-western Bosnian town of Prijedor on Thursday confirmed that NATO-led peacekeepers had arrested Bosnian Serb Darko Mrdja, wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal.
SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, June 13 (Hina) - Local police in the north-
western Bosnian town of Prijedor on Thursday confirmed that NATO-
led peacekeepers had arrested Bosnian Serb Darko Mrdja, wanted by
the UN war crimes tribunal. #L#
Prijedor police commander Mirko Tufekdzija said that Mrdja,
together with yet another person, had been apprehended shortly
after noon and taken into an unknown direction.
Tufekdzija quoted eye-witnesses as saying that they were nabbed by
five masked men wearing uniforms of the NATO-led Stabilisation
Force (SFOR).
Mrdja, suspected of having been involved in war crimes, resisted
the apprehension and SFOR members used force.
Mrdja's name was not on a list of persons publicly indicted by the
Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY).
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