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War crimes fugitive arrested
17/06/2007 15:55 - (SA)
Belgrade - Montenegro on Sunday arrested a former Serbian police general indicted for crimes against humanity during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo, and ordered his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
The arrest of Vlastimir Djordjevic was carried out with the help of the Serbian authorities and underlined the new policy of the month-old government in Belgrade to co-operate in the capture of fugitive war crimes suspects.
The co-operation is key to Serbia's bids to join the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Earlier this month, former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir was delivered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to answer to genocide charges.
Anton Nikiforov of the ICTY prosecution office said on Sunday that Djordjevic's transfer to The Hague was already "underway".
His arrest means that only four fugitives, all Serbs, remain on the run from the UN tribunal dealing with atrocities committed during Yugoslavia's violent collapse in the 1990s.
Most wanted are former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic and war-time political leader Radovan Karadzic, both indicted for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8 000 Muslim males - Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.
- AFP
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