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THE HAGUE, July 24 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has accused the Bosnian Serb entity of
issuing false identity papers to war crimes suspects in a bid to
avoid their arrest.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Office of the Prosecutor said
that several of the accused arrested by SFOR this year had possessed
false official identity documents, including photographs, issued
by various Bosnian Serb authorities at the time of their arrest.
"This demonstrates that not only is (the Bosnian Serb entity)
Republika Srpska avoiding its legal obligations, including those
under the Dayton Peace Agreement, but has also been engaged in
deliberately frustrating the Tribunal's work by issuing false
identification papers to those persons indicted by the Tribunal in
an attempt to shield them from the Tribunal's jurisdiction," the
statement said.
It also reminded the Bosnian Serb and Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia (FRY) governments that they were obliged as signatories
to the Dayton agreement to cooperate with the ICTY, especially in
relation to the arrest and surrender of people suspected of war
crimes.
The Tribunal's call came in the wake of Wednesday's arrest by SFOR
of two Bosnian Serbs believed to have been war crimes suspects. It
was discovered yesterday that the men were not indictees and the
ICTY ordered their immediate return to Bosnia.
The ICTY Office of the Prosecutor warned it was possible that other
incidents of mistaken identity could occur, as long as the Bosnian
Serb entity continued "to supply indicted accused with false
identification papers".
The Office called on the Bosnian Serb government to "desist
immediately in this practice and cooperate with the Tribunal in the
proper identification and location of all persons who have been
indicted by the Tribunal".
In the case of the July 22 incident, the Tribunal was "able to
quickly resolve the identification issue in a matter of hours" but
this was done without the assistance of Bosnian Serb authorities,
the statement said.
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