SARAJEVO, Jan 31 (Hina) - Officials with the International war crimes tribunal in The Hague (ICTY) might soon launch an investigation in at least one of the supposed mass grave sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a spokesman for the NATO-led
Bosnian peace Implementation Force (IFOR) said on Wednesday.
SARAJEVO, Jan 31 (Hina) - Officials with the International war
crimes tribunal in The Hague (ICTY) might soon launch an
investigation in at least one of the supposed mass grave sites in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, a spokesman for the NATO-led Bosnian peace
Implementation Force (IFOR) said on Wednesday. #L#
The spokesman, Marc Rayner, quoted ICTY officials as saying
that while meeting IFOR in Sarajevo, but declined to specify the
exact place to be investigated.
The NATO troops would offer help to the Tribunal and the
decisions on that would be made upon individual demands, Rayner
said, adding that IFOR at the moment could not satisfy the demands
of the family members of the missing from Srebrenica and Zepa.
Protesting in Tuzla over past two days, wives and other family
members of the missing men from two former 'safe havens' demanded
to be given access to the places they had been expelled from, in
order to find out for themselves what had happened to their
husbands.
In a similar rally, around 200 women gathered in front of the
IFOR command in Sanski Most on Tuesday.
The Implementation Force would for the time being limit itself
to safeguard the military security in the separation zones, Rayner
explained, saying that the access to Srebrenica and Zepa should be
given to all, upon the peace accord which had guaranteed the
freedom of movement.
But there has so far been no signs that NATO might exert force
in order to enable the access to eastern Bosnia.
A U.N. special envoy for human rights, Elizabeth Rehn, would
attempt to reach Srebrenica later in the week, after visiting
Sarajevo, and prior to seeing Bosnian Serb officials at Pale.
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