SARAJEVO, Aug 3 (Hina) - The three recently arrested Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina commanders will be transferred to the UN's war crimes tribunal at The Hague in the next few days, Bosnia's senior state and federation officials said on
Friday. Retired generals Mehmed Alagic and Enver Hadzihasanovic and Col. Amir Kubura were arrested on Thursday by the police of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation on orders from the Hague tribunal, and escorted to a prison in Sarajevo. Bosnia's Foreign Minister and chairman of the Council of Ministers, Zlatko Lagumdzija, confirmed today his ministry had received three sealed indictments from the Hague earlier this week demanding the extradition of the indictees. Lagumdzija described the three arrests as a test of the political will to enforce the rule-of-law. He thinks it is very important it was not necessary to resort to commandos of NATO's Stabilisation Force in B
SARAJEVO, Aug 3 (Hina) - The three recently arrested Army of Bosnia-
Herzegovina commanders will be transferred to the UN's war crimes
tribunal at The Hague in the next few days, Bosnia's senior state
and federation officials said on Friday.
Retired generals Mehmed Alagic and Enver Hadzihasanovic and Col.
Amir Kubura were arrested on Thursday by the police of Bosnia's
Croat-Muslim federation on orders from the Hague tribunal, and
escorted to a prison in Sarajevo.
Bosnia's Foreign Minister and chairman of the Council of Ministers,
Zlatko Lagumdzija, confirmed today his ministry had received three
sealed indictments from the Hague earlier this week demanding the
extradition of the indictees.
Lagumdzija described the three arrests as a test of the political
will to enforce the rule-of-law. He thinks it is very important it
was not necessary to resort to commandos of NATO's Stabilisation
Force in Bosnia or special unit commandos to apprehend the three
officers.
According to Lagumdzija, the Bosnian Foreign Ministry has not
received any new extradition requests.
In the future, similar arrests will be carried out on Bosnian
territory, in cooperation with the Hague tribunal and regardless of
names, he said.
The Muslim member of Bosnia's three-man state presidency, Beriz
Belkic, called on Bosnian Serb authorities to act in line with
Bosnia's commitments towards the Hague tribunal.
The UN tribunal's prosecutor's office charges Alagic,
Hadzihasanovic, and Kubura on commanding responsibility with
violations of the laws and customs of war and grave breaches of the
Geneva conventions, namely executions and massacres of Croat
civilians and soldiers following Army of BH attacks on villages and
towns in Central Bosnia in 1993.
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