BELGRADE, June 30 (Hina) - Aboard the helicopter which transferred former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from Belgrade to Tuzla in Bosnia were another two war crimes indictees, Mile Mrksic and Miroslav Radic, members of the
so-called Vukovar Three, Belgrade-based daily Blic said on Saturday. The daily's source also claims there were "several attempts to kidnap", i.e. arrest the last from the Vukovar Three, Veselin Sljivancanin, which failed. Serbia's police refuted on Friday that anybody else indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal had been arrested and handed over to the Hague investigators besides Milosevic. Serbia's interior ministry did, however, specify that "it is not competent for arresting military officials" like Radic and Mrksic. The Belgrade media said today that Milan Martic, Mrksic, and Dusko Knezevic were at a Stabilisation Force base near Tuzla, but no mention is made of Radic. The
BELGRADE, June 30 (Hina) - Aboard the helicopter which transferred
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from Belgrade to
Tuzla in Bosnia were another two war crimes indictees, Mile Mrksic
and Miroslav Radic, members of the so-called Vukovar Three,
Belgrade-based daily Blic said on Saturday.
The daily's source also claims there were "several attempts to
kidnap", i.e. arrest the last from the Vukovar Three, Veselin
Sljivancanin, which failed.
Serbia's police refuted on Friday that anybody else indicted by the
Hague war crimes tribunal had been arrested and handed over to the
Hague investigators besides Milosevic.
Serbia's interior ministry did, however, specify that "it is not
competent for arresting military officials" like Radic and
Mrksic.
The Belgrade media said today that Milan Martic, Mrksic, and Dusko
Knezevic were at a Stabilisation Force base near Tuzla, but no
mention is made of Radic.
The media reiterated a claim by Banja Luka's daily Nezavisne novine
to the effect that Martic, Mrksic, and Knezevic had been arrested
and taken to the Tuzla base.
On Thursday, the Hague tribunal's spokeswoman, Florence Hartmann,
refuted that the three were in prison in The Hague.
Quoting Nezavisne novine's indirect confirmation that the three
were still in Tuzla, Belgrade's media stated they would be
extradited to the Hague prison, Scheveningen, on Monday.
The Hague tribunal accused Sljivancanin, Mrksic and Radic of war
crimes over 260 Croatian civilians who were forced out of a hospital
in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar and executed at nearby
Ovcara.
Martic, the former Croatian Serb rebel leader, was accused of
serious breaches of the Geneva convention, crimes against
humanity, and breaching the laws and customs of war.
Knezevic from Prijedor, Bosnia has been charged with war crimes
committed at the Keraterm concentration camp.
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