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| BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Bosnia Police Fail to Find War Crimes Suspect |
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2004-10-18 12:05:26 |
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Bosnian Serb police acting on a tip from the U.N. war crimes tribunal sealed off part of the northern town of Bijeljina on Saturday and searched homes but found no fugitives.
They did not reveal the target's identity.
"After a tip by the international war crimes tribunal that a fugitive could be in this town, the police blocked roads and raided three private apartments early on Saturday but did not find the suspect," a police statement said.
Bosnian Serb authorities are under Western pressure to demonstrate compliance with The Hague tribunal by arresting indicted suspects from the Bosnian 1992-95 war.
The SRNA news agency reported that one of the apartments belonged to Ljubomir Borovcanin, deputy commander of a Bosnian special police brigade during the war, who is indicted by the court in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of over 7,000 Muslims.
Borovcanin, 44, was involved in numerous opportunistic killings after Serb forces captured men and boys from the former U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors say he reported to Radislav Krstic, a general who was the first man convicted of genocide at The Hague.
NATO-led peacekeepers this week raided a house belonging to a brother of a fugitive war criminal in the eastern town of Sokolac and a hotel in the northwestern town of Banja Luka, hosting a retired Bosnian Serb army general.
Bosnia's hopes of joining NATO and the European Union hinge on arresting The Hague's most wanted fugitive, Radovan Karadzic, the wartime Bosnian Serb president indicted twice for genocide for Srebrenica and the long and bloody siege of Sarajevo.
The parliament of the Serb Republic, one of Bosnia's two autonomous regions, urged the government in July to intensify the hunt for war crimes suspects and the regional interior minister has pledged concrete results.
Source: Reuters
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The Event: SEEF 2004
