Bosnian Serb police chief transferred to UN court

  • 12/15/2022
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BELGRADE, Serbia, June 21, SPA -- Serb authorities early Saturdayhanded over an ex-Bosnian Serb police chief wanted by theYugoslav war crimes tribunal. A Belgrade court rejected an appeal by Stojan Zupljanin onFriday against his extradition. The U.N. tribunal has charged Zupljanin with war crimesfor allegedly overseeing Serb-run prison camps wherethousands of Muslims and Croats were killed during the1992-95 war in Bosnia, according to a report of the Associated Press. He was arrested in the town of Pancevo last week afternine years on the run. Zupljanin is the 43rd Serb suspect extradited to theinternational tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Theothers include the late former President SlobodanMilosevic, who is blamed for fomenting the wars in formerYugoslavia in the 1990s. Three other suspects remain at large. They are formerBosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, hismilitary commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, and Goran Hadzic, aCroatian Serb leader. Karadzic and Mladic are wanted on genocide charges forallegedly organizing the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims inSrebrenica and other atrocities of the Bosnian war. The EU has stressed that all the suspects must be arrestedand extradited if Belgrade wants to move closer to the27-nation bloc.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/567089

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