ZADAR, Sept 6 (Hina) - Croatian police on Monday arrested two suspects in a war crime committed in the central Bosnia-Herzegovina village of Ahmici during 1993's Croat-Muslim conflict. In the evening hours of Monday, September 4,
police in Zadar arrested Tomislav Vlajic, born in Busovaca, central BH, in 1965, who had been hiding in Croatia's central Adriatic port under a false name. In the afternoon hours of the following day, Zadar police arrested Ante Sliskovic, born in Busovaca in 1950, who had also been hiding under a false name. Both are Croatian citizens and were arrested in Zadar County. An Interior Ministry statement on the arrests was read to reporters at Wednesday's conference in Zadar, stating full first names and the first letters of the last names.
ZADAR, Sept 6 (Hina) - Croatian police on Monday arrested two
suspects in a war crime committed in the central Bosnia-Herzegovina
village of Ahmici during 1993's Croat-Muslim conflict.
In the evening hours of Monday, September 4, police in Zadar
arrested Tomislav Vlajic, born in Busovaca, central BH, in 1965,
who had been hiding in Croatia's central Adriatic port under a false
name. In the afternoon hours of the following day, Zadar police
arrested Ante Sliskovic, born in Busovaca in 1950, who had also been
hiding under a false name.
Both are Croatian citizens and were arrested in Zadar County. An
Interior Ministry statement on the arrests was read to reporters at
Wednesday's conference in Zadar, stating full first names and the
first letters of the last names.#L#
Sliskovic and Vlajic were brought before an investigating judge
today due to founded suspicion that they committed a war crime
against civilians and forged documents.
The Interior Ministry statement on the arrests was read to the press
by Emil Bilic, deputy head of the Analysis and Information
Department at the Zadar PD. Reporters were not given the
possibility to put questions after the statement was read.
The statement also says that charges have been pressed against
another two suspects, who are on the run, suspected of the same
crimes. These are Pasko Ljubicic, born in Busovaca in 1965, and
Vlado Cosic, another Busovaca native born in 1962, both hiding
under false names.
It is possible they will turn themselves in to answer before
Croatian judicial bodies to the charges accusing them of war
crimes.
The statement further says the Croatian Interior Ministry is
continuing an investigation into the Ahmici crime, which claimed
the lives of 116 civilians killed in 1993 and resulted in the
destruction of many buildings. All Interior Ministry sectors and
several police departments are taking part in the investigation.
The statement says the Interior Ministry's work had been obstructed
daily by individuals from state bodies who helped the suspects
escape and hide by keeping in touch with them.
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