SARAJEVO, July 10 (Hina) - The NATO chief commander in Europe, General
George Joulwan, confirmed that the NATO-led SFOR troops had carried out
action aimed at arresting war crimes suspects in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Joulwan's statement was released by the SFOR headquarters in Sarajevo on
Thursday.
At 09:30 a.m. on Thursday SFOR troops arrested Milan Kovacevic, a
war crimes suspect, in a hospital in Prijedor. The arrest was conducted
with no incident, according to the statement given by Joulwan who was
empowered by NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana to do so.
According to the statement, in a separate action in the
surroundings of Prijedor, Simo Draljaca, a war crimes suspect and a
former police chief in that northwestern Bosnian town, opened fire at
SFOR troops who approached Drljaca to apprehend him. One SFOR soldier
was injured in the incident. It was said that Draljaca was killed when
SFOR troops opened fire in self-defence.
Both Draljaca and Kovacevic have been suspected by the
International War Criminal Tribunal of war crimes and genocide committed
against Bosnian Moslem and Croats in the Prijedor area from 29 April
1992 to 31 December 1992, according to the statement.
It was said that the action conducted by SFOR troops was in line
with SFOR mandate in Bosnia.
Kovacevic, the current director of Prijedor hospital, will be
handed over to the Hague Tribunal during Thursday, according to
Joulwan's statement and it added that NATO troops acted on the ground of
political instructions.
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