SARAJEVO, Sept 2 (Hina) - Please note that we are withdrawing the news item HNA7157 headlined "Buzuk and Ilijasevic on Same List of War Crime Suspects?". Following is the corrected version of the news item: "War crime suspect Vlatko
Buzuk, who was arrested by the Sarajevo police on the Orasje border crossing (northern Bosnia) on Friday, has been handed over to the Sarajevo Canton Court investigators, the Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Buzuk was arrested by the local police at Orasje after the Sarajevo Canton Court issued an arrest warrant for him. Members of the police forces in Sarajevo Canton took Buzuk over on Friday. The Sarajevo media have reported that Buzuk was arrested under suspicion of having committed or participated in war crimes in central Bosnia. Bosnia-Herzegovina Television reported that the names of Buzuk and Dominik Ilijasevic, w
SARAJEVO, Sept 2 (Hina) - Please note that we are withdrawing the
news item HNA7157 headlined "Buzuk and Ilijasevic on Same List of
War Crime Suspects?". Following is the corrected version of the
news item:
"War crime suspect Vlatko Buzuk, who was arrested by the Sarajevo
police on the Orasje border crossing (northern Bosnia) on Friday,
has been handed over to the Sarajevo Canton Court investigators,
the Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry said in a statement on
Saturday.
Buzuk was arrested by the local police at Orasje after the Sarajevo
Canton Court issued an arrest warrant for him. Members of the police
forces in Sarajevo Canton took Buzuk over on Friday.
The Sarajevo media have reported that Buzuk was arrested under
suspicion of having committed or participated in war crimes in
central Bosnia.
Bosnia-Herzegovina Television reported that the names of Buzuk and
Dominik Ilijasevic, who was arrested several days ago in Kiseljak,
were on the same list of persons suspected of war crimes in Stupni Do
near Vares, where members of the Croat Defence Council (HVO) killed
16 Bosniaks in autumn 1993.
Saturday's issue of the Sarajevo daily "Dnevni Avaz" read that
Buzuk too was a resident of Kiseljak and that during the war he had
commanded a special unit of the Herceg-Bosna interior ministry with
headquarters in Kresevo.
Buzuk allegedly continued to work for the interior ministry after
the war.
After the arrest of Ilijasevic, the Interior Minister of Central
Bosnia Canton, Midhat Zubaca, said he had received open threats by
members of criminal groups from Kiseljak. He told the local media he
had received a letter threatening that his son would be kidnapped.
Zubaca added he would not be intimidated by threats and arrests
would continue.
Following Ilijasevic's arrest, Federation Deputy Interior
Minister Ivan Bacak said the arrest was a classic case of kidnapping
and objected that Croat officials in the federal and Central Bosnia
Canton interior ministries had not been informed about the
operation.
The head of the U.N. Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jacques Klein,
dismissed these objections as unfounded.
Klein told Bosnia-Herzegovina Television that Croat officials had
been informed about why they could not participate in Ilijasevic's
request.
He added that several previous police operations failed after Croat
officials had been informed about them. After we included them,
there were information leaks, Klein said.
Commenting on the withdrawal of Croat officials from the federal
interior ministry, Dnevni Avaz reported Ilijasevic's arrest only
proved that problems existed in the functioning of this
institution".
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