HAGUE TRIBUNAL INVESTIGATORS VISIT CENTRAL BOSNIAN VILLAGE

( Editorial: --> 6170 ) VITEZ, July 7 (Hina) - Units of the Dutch battalion of the NATO-led peace Stabilisation Force (SFOR) on Tuesday morning blocked all access to Ahmici, a village near Vitez, central Bosnia. No one can access the village. A large number of soldiers is watching the part of a district near the house of Vlatko Kupreskic, a war crimes suspect arrested by the SFOR last December and transferred to The Hague. According to a Dutch officer, the SFOR was just providing security for a group of investigators from the Hague war crimes tribunal who are conducting additional investigations. The officer declined to comment on the high number of SFOR members. (hina) ha 071513 MET jul 98