POLICEMEN IN BOSNIA SACKED FOR SUSPICIOUS WAR PAST

SARAJEVO, Nov 13 (Hina) - Seven policemen from Bosnia-Herzegovina have been sacked due to their suspicious activities in the 1990s conflict, the spokesman for the United Nations Mission to Bosnia, Stefo Lehman, said in Sarajevo on Tuesday. He says the UN Mission, namely the International Police Task Force (IPTF) is checking all employees in the interior ministries of the Bosnian Federation and Republika Srpska (RS) to establish if the employees had a criminal record, namely that they are not responsible for violations of the laws and customs of war. According to the investigation conducted by the IPTF, three inspectors from the Prijedor (RS) police department had been investigators in the Keraterm and Manjaca detention camps during the war. The three inspectors have been fired. The UN Mission expects the Republika Srpska authorities to act in line with the law and take additional measures against the three former policemen. Another four Interior Ministry inspectors from the Zenica-Doboj Canton (Bosnian Federation) have also been sacked for covering up the murder of two Serbs in central Bosnia in 1992. (hina) it sb