MADRID/SARAJEVO, Aug 11 (Hina) - The United Nations have accused the Bosnian Serb entity's police of obstructing an investigation into the assassination of a Catholic priest, Tomislav Matanovic, and his parents, who were abducted and
killed in 1995, according to a report of the Spanish news agency EFE, cited by the Bosnian Catholic agency (KTA).
MADRID/SARAJEVO, Aug 11 (Hina) - The United Nations have accused
the Bosnian Serb entity's police of obstructing an investigation
into the assassination of a Catholic priest, Tomislav Matanovic,
and his parents, who were abducted and killed in 1995, according to
a report of the Spanish news agency EFE, cited by the Bosnian
Catholic agency (KTA). #L#
Matanovic and his parents were abducted on 24 August 1995 when they
were taken to the police station in the Serb-held town of Prijedor,
northern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The police explained them that they were taken to the station for
their personal safety, but their whereabouts were unknown from that
day until September 2001 when their corpses were found in a well
some 15 kilometres of Prijedor, KTA said.
The court in Banja Luka, at the insistence of the UN war crimes in
The Hague, arrested five policemen from Prijedor this May on
suspicion that they were involved in the murder.
The police officers were detained in custody for 30 day and later
their detention was prolonged, the Spanish agency reported.
But, an UN official, Alun Roberts, asked the local Serb police to
apprehend another 16 persons who were also involved in the
killing.
Most of those suspects were policemen at the time of the priest's
killing, and currently they are freely moving in the area of the
Republic of Srpska, according to Roberts.
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