SIX FORMER POLICE ARRESTED IN SPLIT ON SUSPICION OF WAR CRIMES

SPLIT, Sept 27 (Hina) - Six of eight former police officers, suspected of war crimes at a former military prison at the Lora naval port in Split in 1992 and later, were arrested on Thursday and taken to a Split County Court investigating judge this evening. The information was confirmed to Hina by Mladen Bajic, State Prosecutor for Split County, who refused to reveal any details, saying an official statement about the arrests would be issued tomorrow. According to unofficial sources, the eight former military police officers are suspected of killing Serb civilians Nenad Knezevic and Gojko Bulovic, as well as two prisoners of war. Testimonies by witnesses provided enough evidence to issue arrest warrants. The September 28 issue of the Jutarnji List daily reports about an investigation into the deaths of Split residents Bulovic and Knezevic, who were arrested on suspicion of participating in the armed rebellion against Croatia, and two members of Montenegrin reserve forces, who surrendered to Croatian forces in the area of Ston near Dubrovnik in mid-1992. The arrests ensued after the questioning of persons who at the time had worked as guards at Lora, says the daily. The Nacional weekly reported in March this year the State Prosecutor's Office decided to renew the investigation into the Lora crimes in October last year after the Dalmatian Human Rights Committee had submitted new documents and testimonies by new witnesses about the torture and killing of civilians and prisoners of war at Lora. (hina) rml