Vojvodina wants full details of Karadžić case

Vojvodina assembly's security committee wants state organs to give them details of the capture of Hague fugitives. The committee will also ask for an explanation as to how the Hague fugitives received their documents. Vojvodina wants full details of Karadzic case Committee member Milan Djukic says that they will ask for information about all the elements of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, including not only details of the arrests of Radovan Karadzic and Stojan Zupljanin, but also an explanation as to how the two fugitives obtained their fake IDs. “We’ll insist that the Interior Ministry provide us with comprehensive details of that phenomenon, because the fact that both fugitives had fake documents issued in Vojvodina police stations points not to an isolated problem, but to a systematic practice,” Djukic told Novi Sad daily Dnevnik. He added that “such a modus operandi simply had to be supported either by the system, or a breakaway part of it.” Djukic said that if the state really planned to bring all the details to light, it would need to set about unmasking Karadzic and Zupljanin’s entire support networks. “Karadzic and Zupljanin used the identities of dead people from Bosnia-Herzegovina, which means that someone must have helped them to obtain their basic documents, such as their birth certificate, while it’s a fact that someone also helped them receive Serbian citizenship. So, there are a lot of questions that the authorities will need to answer quickly,” he stressed. B92 has learnt that the ID for Dragan Dabic, Radovan Karadzic’s alias, was issued in Ruma. A man named Dragan Dabic was born in 1954 and died in 1993 during the siege of Sarajevo. In order to obtain a Serbian ID card, a person needs to have Serbian citizenship—which Karadzic does not—and leave his fingerprints.

Vojvodina wants full details of Karadžić case

Committee member Milan Đukić says that they will ask for information about all the elements of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, including not only details of the arrests of Radovan Karadžić and Stojan Župljanin, but also an explanation as to how the two fugitives obtained their fake IDs.

“We’ll insist that the Interior Ministry provide us with comprehensive details of that phenomenon, because the fact that both fugitives had fake documents issued in Vojvodina police stations points not to an isolated problem, but to a systematic practice,” Đukić told Novi Sad daily Dnevnik.

He added that “such a modus operandi simply had to be supported either by the system, or a breakaway part of it.”

Đukić said that if the state really planned to bring all the details to light, it would need to set about unmasking Karadžić and Župljanin’s entire support networks.

“Karadžić and Župljanin used the identities of dead people from Bosnia-Herzegovina, which means that someone must have helped them to obtain their basic documents, such as their birth certificate, while it’s a fact that someone also helped them receive Serbian citizenship. So, there are a lot of questions that the authorities will need to answer quickly,” he stressed.

B92 has learnt that the ID for Dragan Dabić, Radovan Karadžić’s alias, was issued in Ruma.

A man named Dragan Dabić was born in 1954 and died in 1993 during the siege of Sarajevo.

In order to obtain a Serbian ID card, a person needs to have Serbian citizenship—which Karadžić does not—and leave his fingerprints.