SARAJEVO, May 15 (Hina) - The commander of IFOR ground troops in
Bosnia, Gen. Michael Walker, on Wednesday rejected the Bosnian
government's accusations over the surrender of seven Bosnian Moslem
men to Serb authorities.
The NATO-led peace Implementation Force (IFOR) issued a
statement recalling that armed groups, such as the seven men,
represented a threat to the peace process under the US-sponsored
Dayton peace agreement.
Walker fully supported a US officer who had decided to hand
the Moslems to the Serbs after two-hour interrogation.
UN spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko said that the seven
men who had turned themselves in to US troops near the northeastern
town of Zvornik were apparently from the eastern Moslem enclave of
Srebrenica, overrun by Serb forces in the summer of 1995, because
their names were on lists of missing persons.
Walker dismissed criticism by Bosnian government officials
that the seven men from Srebrenica should not have been handed over
to the Serbs after what they had been through.
The war is over and the tragedy that happened in Srebrenica
cannot have influence on crimes committed afterwards, Walker said.
The Bosnian Serb authorities have accussed the seven Moslems
of being responsible for killing four persons in the Srebrenica
area on May 2.
The Serbs have not presented any evidence to the international
police force to corroborate those charges and have barred access to
the scenes of the alleged crimes.
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