SARAJEVO, June 25 (Hina) - Dusko Sikirica, a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect arrested early on Sunday by Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops, could be the person most responsible for war crimes committed in the infamous prison camp
Keraterm near Prijedor, western Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Sarajevo media reported. Sikirica, who was on a list of persons publicly indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal for crimes committed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, was the commander of the Keraterm prison camp, where a large number of non-Serb prisoners was tortured and killed. According to scanty information on the arrest warrant, Sikirica was born in 1964 and was called by the nickname 'Sikira' (Hatchet). The Republika Srpska interior ministry reported today Sikirica had been arrested in his house in Prijedor around 3 am. Two other suspects, Dragan Kolundzija and Damir Dosen, are already in the Scheveningen de
SARAJEVO, June 25 (Hina) - Dusko Sikirica, a Bosnian Serb war crimes
suspect arrested early on Sunday by Stabilisation Force (SFOR)
troops, could be the person most responsible for war crimes
committed in the infamous prison camp Keraterm near Prijedor,
western Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Sarajevo media reported.
Sikirica, who was on a list of persons publicly indicted by the
Hague war crimes tribunal for crimes committed during the war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, was the commander of the Keraterm prison camp,
where a large number of non-Serb prisoners was tortured and
killed.
According to scanty information on the arrest warrant, Sikirica was
born in 1964 and was called by the nickname 'Sikira' (Hatchet).
The Republika Srpska interior ministry reported today Sikirica had
been arrested in his house in Prijedor around 3 am.
Two other suspects, Dragan Kolundzija and Damir Dosen, are already
in the Scheveningen detention centre in line with the indictment
for crimes committed in the Keraterm camp. Both were deputies to the
camp commander.
The indictment also includes two brothers, Predrag and Nenad
Banovic, and Dragan Fustar, who are still at large.
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