BELGRADE, July 2 (Hina) - Serbia's Interior Ministry has once again refuted some Belgrade media allegations to the effect that Hague war crimes tribunal indictees Milan Martic, Mile Mrksic, and Dusan Knezevic were arrested in the
northern Yugoslav province of Vojvodina. A statement released late on Sunday "resolutely refutes such and similar misinformation, calculated to unnecessarily disturb the public, the police and the army." For the past three days the media in Belgrade and Bosnia's Banja Luka-based daily Nezavisne novine have claimed that Martic, Mrksic, Knezevic, and Miroslav Radic were arrested and are detained in a military base near the north-eastern Bosnian town of Tuzla. Besides stating that they were arrested in Vojvodina, the media have said they were transferred to Tuzla from Belgrade aboard a helicopter which transported Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, before hi
BELGRADE, July 2 (Hina) - Serbia's Interior Ministry has once again
refuted some Belgrade media allegations to the effect that Hague
war crimes tribunal indictees Milan Martic, Mile Mrksic, and Dusan
Knezevic were arrested in the northern Yugoslav province of
Vojvodina.
A statement released late on Sunday "resolutely refutes such and
similar misinformation, calculated to unnecessarily disturb the
public, the police and the army."
For the past three days the media in Belgrade and Bosnia's Banja
Luka-based daily Nezavisne novine have claimed that Martic,
Mrksic, Knezevic, and Miroslav Radic were arrested and are detained
in a military base near the north-eastern Bosnian town of Tuzla.
Besides stating that they were arrested in Vojvodina, the media
have said they were transferred to Tuzla from Belgrade aboard a
helicopter which transported Slobodan Milosevic, the former
Yugoslav president, before his extradition to the UN war crimes
tribunal last week.
Serbia's Interior Ministry had released a similar statement on
Friday, when tribunal spokeswoman Florence Hartmann confirmed in
Zagreb that the aforementioned men were not in The Hague.
The ministry had also said on that occasion that it was not
authorised to arrest military officials.
Martic has been indicted for shelling Zagreb and breaching
humanitarian rights and the customs of war. Mrksic and Radic are,
alongside Veselin Sljivancanin, the so-called Vukovar Three who
have been indicted for war crimes against Croatian civilians and
soldiers in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991. Knezevic
has been indicted for crimes against Muslims in Keraterm, a
concentration camp near the north-western Bosnian town of
Prijedor.
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