THE HAGUE, June 14 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal said on Friday that Darko Mrdja, accused for the killing of more than 200 men in August 1992, when he commanded a special Bosnian Serb police unit, had been arrested.
THE HAGUE, June 14 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal said on
Friday that Darko Mrdja, accused for the killing of more than 200
men in August 1992, when he commanded a special Bosnian Serb police
unit, had been arrested. #L#
Mrdja was arrested in Prijedor, Bosnia, and transferred to The
Hague's Scheveningen detention centre on Thursday.
Mrdja's unit participated in the killing of more than 200 men from
the Trnopolje detention camp and the village of Tukovi in north-
western Bosnia-Herzegovina. They had been brought to the execution
site at Vlasic mountain with the explanation that they would be
exchanged. Mrdja had allegedly told them: "This is the place of the
exchange, the living for the living, and the dead..."
The indictment against Mrdja states that 12 persons survived.
Mrdja was born in Zagreb in 1967.
(hina) ha