- Title: BOSNIA: NATO TROOPS ARREST BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMES FUGITIVE RADOVAN STANKOVIC
- Date: 18th July 2002
- Summary: (U6) SARAJEVO, BOSNIA (JULY 9, 2002)(REUTERS) 1. MV MAJOR SCOTT LUNDY, SPOKESMAN FOR THE NATO-LED STABILISATION FORCE (SFOR) PREPARING TO ADDRESS MEDIA; SCU STATEMENT IN SPOKESMAN'S HANDS 0.11 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MAJOR SCOTT LUNDY, SFOR SPOKESMAN SAYING "Today, at approximately 1500 hours local time the Stabilisation Force successfully detained Radovan Stankovic, an indicted war criminal, near Foca in the Republika Srbska. There were no casualties sustained in the operation and no shots were fired. Mr Stankovic is now being processed for transfer to The Hague. Radovan Stankovic was indicted for crimes against humanity to include rape, sexual assault and enslavement of women and young girls, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, specifically inhumane treatment and violation of the laws and customs of war specifically outrages against personal dignity. The commander of SFOR Lieutenant General John B. Silvester said, 'To those war criminals still at large the message should be clear, We will find you, apprehend you and bring you to justice, your time is running out." 1.07 3. SCU POSTERS PUT UP FOR THE ARREST OF THE INDICTED BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMES FUGITIVE RADOVAN STANKOVIC AND OTHERS (3 SHOTS) 1.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA
- Country: Bosnia
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- Story Text: NATO troops have arrested Bosnian Serb war crimes
fugitive Radovan Stankovic in a raid near the town of Foca in
Bosnia's rugged eastern hills, a spokesman for the force said.
Stankovic, a former soldier from an elite Bosnian
Serb paramilitary unit, is accused by the U.N. Hague Tribunal
of holding several women in a brutal regime at a Muslim-owned
house in Foca early in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
"Mr Stankovic is now being processed for transfer to The
Hague," said Major Scott Lundy, a spokesman for the NATO-led
Stabilisation Force (SFOR). "He was indicted for crimes such
as rape, sexual assault, enslavement of women and young girls."
Lundy said nobody was hurt in the operation, which took
place at about 3:00 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Tuesday (July 9). He
declined to give further details.
It was the second arrest of a war crimes fugitive in
Bosnia in three days and at least the third SFOR raid in the
hardline Serb area this year.
The 18,000-strong peacekeeping force earlier this year
mounted two swoops nearby in failed attempts to catch the U.N.
court's top fugitive, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan
Karadzic, who was believed to be hiding nearby.
Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic remain at large.
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