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Tuesday, October 26,1999
Bosnian War Crimes Suspect Apprehended
  Thousands of Bosnians march through the streets
  begging for security against future hate crimes.
BRUSSELS, Oct 25 (AFP) - Troops from the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia apprehended a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Monday and prepared to send him to The Hague for trial, a NATO statement said.
Damir Dosen was under indictment by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his role as a commander at the Keraterm prison camp, near Prijedor in Bosnia's northwest, in 1992.
"He is now being processed for transfer to The Hague," where the tribunal is based, the alliance said in a statement signed by its new secretary general, Lord Robertson.
In the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, a SFOR spokesman said Dosen was detained "at approximately 1:00 p.m. (1100 GMT) by SFOR elements of Multinational Division Southeast," which is under British operational command.
He declined to give more details, saying: "As there are still persons indicted for war crimes at large, SFOR will not discuss the specifics of the detention."
However the independent radio station Radio Phoenix said Dosen had been arrested in the town of Prijedor, in Bosnia's Serb entity of Republika Srpska, after NATO troops faked a road accident.
Nobody was hurt in the operation, the radio station said.
The ICTY said on its Internet site that Dosen lived on the outskirts of Prijedor, where he was often seen visiting his parents.
Dosen was among 13 people named in a July 1995 indictment relating to atrocities at the Keraterm camp, where the tribunal says more than 3,000 Bosnian Moslems and Croats were held in horrific conditions during the first months of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
"Detainees at Keraterm camp were killed, sexually assaulted, tortured, beaten, and otherwise subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment," the NATO statement said.
ICTY spokesman Paul Risley, in The Hague, said Dosen was being held in Tuzla, the main city in northeastern Bosnia and site of a major US SFOR base, pending transfer to The Hague aboard a military aircraft.
He was expected to arrive in The Hague in the evening, he said.
Dosen's arrest came six days after the tribunal convicted Goran Jelisic, 31, a Bosnian Serb paramilitary known as "Adolf," for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bosnia's northwest. He now is awaiting sentencing.
Dosen is also the first ICTY indictee to be nabbed in Bosnia since former Swiss federal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte became the tribunal's chief prosecutor in mid-September, succeeding Canadian jurist Louise Arbour.
Del Ponte is to tour the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia and Kosovo, this week and next.
Still to be apprehended are the tribunal's two most wanted suspects in Bosnia -- the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and military commander General Ratko Mladic.
Both have been under indictment since 1995 for the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo and the July 1995 massacre of an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Moslems in Srebrenica, northeast Bosnia.
On his first visit to Sarajevo as secretary-general, Robertson said last Thursday that a "lasting peace" could not be reached in the former Yugoslavia unless all indicted war crime suspects are tried in The Hague.

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