BELGRADE, Nov 10 (Hina) - Around 30 members of Serbia's special police blocked the Novi Sad-Subotica road near Vrbas with armed personnel carriers on Saturday morning, protesting against the arrest and extradition of the Banovic
brothers to the Hague war crimes tribunal and demanding the resignation of Serbia's Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic. The rebellion started late on Friday afternoon. The police say they have been "hoaxed" in connection with the arrest of Predrag and Nenad Banovic as Mihajlovic and the head of the Serbian secret police, Goran Petrovic, issued a spoken order to arrest persons who "committed serious crimes." The rebel police, known as the Red Berets, said on Friday they would no longer heed arrest orders as long as Yugoslavia did not pass a law on cooperation with the Hague tribunal. They will not participate in the arrest of Serb patriots either, they added. The International
BELGRADE, Nov 10 (Hina) - Around 30 members of Serbia's special
police blocked the Novi Sad-Subotica road near Vrbas with armed
personnel carriers on Saturday morning, protesting against the
arrest and extradition of the Banovic brothers to the Hague war
crimes tribunal and demanding the resignation of Serbia's Interior
Minister Dusan Mihajlovic.
The rebellion started late on Friday afternoon. The police say they
have been "hoaxed" in connection with the arrest of Predrag and
Nenad Banovic as Mihajlovic and the head of the Serbian secret
police, Goran Petrovic, issued a spoken order to arrest persons who
"committed serious crimes."
The rebel police, known as the Red Berets, said on Friday they would
no longer heed arrest orders as long as Yugoslavia did not pass a law
on cooperation with the Hague tribunal. They will not participate
in the arrest of Serb patriots either, they added.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) charges the brothers with crimes over Muslims in Keraterm, a
Serb detention camp near Prijedor in north-western Bosnia,
committed in 1992.
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