|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ZADAR (AFP) - Two Bosnian Croats suspected of being responsible for the 1993 massacre of more than 100 Bosnian Muslim civilians in a central Bosnian village have been arrested here, police said Wednesday. Ante Sliskovic, former head of the intelligence service (SIS) in the central Bosnian town of Kiseljak, and his assistant Tomo Vlajic, were arrested earlier this week in the southern Croatian town of Zadar, police spokesperson Emil Bilic said to reporters. Sliskovic was detained on Tuesday, while Vlajic was arrested on Monday, police said. The arrests were made in connection with a massacre that took place in April 1993 in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici. The two suspects were brought before an investigative judge at the Zadar county court, Bilic said. Sliskovic and Vlajic were in hiding in Zadar, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Zagreb, under false identities, he added. Police continued to search for two more suspects connected to the Ahmici massacre-Pasko Ljubicic, the former commander of Bosnian Croat military police in central Bosnia and his deputy Vlado Cosic - who also live under false identities. The four suspects do not figure on the UN war crimes tribunal indictment list. The Croatian press raised speculations in May that authorities in Zagreb had covered up for war crimes suspects, reporting that the suspects have been living in the country under false identities. The independent weekly National reported at the time that Croatia's former nationalist regime had given false identification papers to Sliskovic, Ljubicic, Cosic and Miroslav Bralo Cicko. The false identities were reportedly given at the request of Markica Rebic, late president Franjo Tudjman's advisor for internal policy. The four were given housing in the Zadar area as refugees from central Bosnia. Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in March to a 45-year jail term for organizing systematic attacks against Muslims in central Bosnia's Lasva valley between 1992 and 1994, including the massacre in Ahmici. Blaskic's lawyer, Anto Nobilo, told national television Wednesday that if the suspects were to reveal the identities of those who masterminded the massacre, Blaskic would be acquitted. |
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
