SFOR ARRESTS BOSNIAN SERB CHARGED WITH MASS KILLINGS

( Editorial: --> 6387 ) THE HAGUE, Jan 22 (Hina) - Members of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force Thursday arrested Bosnian Serb Goran Jelisic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for genocide, serious violations of the Geneva conventions, crimes against humanity and violation of the law and cutoms of war. ICTY spokesman Cristian Chartier told reporters he did not know the place and circumstances of the arrest as yet. He commended the members of the SFOR for the successful arrest and called on all indictees to surrender. Jelisic, who called himself "Serb Adolf", was born in the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina in 1968. All the crimes he has been charged with were committed between 17 April and 20 November 1992, on the territory of the municipality of Brcko, northern Bosnia- Herzegovina, where during May 1992 Jelisic was commander of the Luka detention camp. Since April 1992, Bosnian Serb troops expelled the Croat and Muslim population of Brcko. Several hundred men were taken to the Luka camp, where between 7 and 21 May they were systematically killed. According to the indictment, Jelisic used to make daily visits to the camp's main hangar, where most captives were situated. He would single several for investigation and together with the camp's guards beat and eventually kill them with a shot in the head or the back. Jelisic is on a collective bill of indictment with Ranko Cesic, born 1964. Cesic was a superior at the Luka camp. In 77 clauses, the indictment describes the genocide, killings and torture, beatings and inhuman behaviour towards the camp's acptives. (hina) ha mm 221327 MET jan 98