REPUBLIKA SRPSKA EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT BRDJANIN'S ARREST

SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, July 6 (Hina) - Representatives of the authority in the Bosnian Serb entity of the Republika Srpska on Tuesday expressed a concern about the arrest of Bosnian Serb Radoslav Brdjanin, a war crime suspect who was taken in by members of the NATO led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina earlier today. Vice President of the Republika Srpska Mirko Sarovic said it was about time to stop conducting arrests based on secret indictments. Sarovic said that Brdjanin was arrested in a bizzare way in his apartment "in front of flabbergasted members of his family and neighbours", the Banja Luka electronic media reported. Sarovic claims that Brdjanin was taken in by persons in civilian clothes in vehicles bearing "non-existing" registration plates. The Serbian People's Alliance (SNS), headed by Biljana Plavsis, protested the arrest, and stressed that Brdjanin was protected by parliamentary immunity. Brdjanin was one of the closest associates of Radovan Karadjic. He was in charge of the most responsible duties in Banja Luka at the time when mass persecutions of non-Serb population had been conducted in that part of the country, including the establishment of concentration camps in which a large number of Croats and Bosniaks had been tortured and killed. Brdjanin was held responsible for the destruction of all mosques in Banja Luka. (hina) it jn