SARAJEVO POLICE ARREST SERB SUSPECTED OF WAR CRIMES

( Editorial: --> 2088 ) SARAJEVO, March 24 (Hina) - Police in Sarajevo have arrested another Serb suspected of war crimes. The Sarajevo Canton Public prosecutor confirmed on Tuesday that Dragan Pejic, 39, had been arrested on Monday in the Sarajevo area under a well-founded suspicion that he committed crimes against the civilian population. After the arrest he was brought before the investigative judge and then kept in custody, says a statement by the Prosecutor. Charges against Pejic for violation of the Geneva convention on protection of civilians during the war were pressed on 27 July 1995 by the public prosecutor in the Bosnian capital. His file was subsequently sent to the ICTY, which indicted him on Monday. Aisling Burne, spokeswoman of the Sarajevo Office of High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, stated on Tuesday that Pejic's case was still being investigated. However, UN spokesman Liam McDowall said on Tuesday that the International Police Transitional Force learned about Pejic's arrest from newspapers, while Sarajevo Canton Interior Minister Ismet Dahic stated that members of the IPTF had been timely informed about Pejic's arrest. (Hina) mm mr /mb 242044 MET mar 98