"Orić should have been arrested in Serbia"

Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekarić says wartime Bosnian Muslim commander Naser Orić "was coming to Serbia," and that "the plan was to arrest him here."

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Wednesday, 05.02.2014.

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"Orić should have been arrested in Serbia"

Vekarić told RTS that it was now "legally undoable for Orić to be extradited to Serbia," because one country does not extradite to another war crimes suspects.

"Orić had communication, both business and private, in Serbia, and he was thus supposed to be available to our judicial authorities. And this was in some kind of a pre-phase, before the issuing of the red warrant for him, and this became public knowledge, which caused great damage to the case," said Vekarić.

He added that based on an agreement signed by Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, "some new and compelling evidence" could be given to the Bosnian side, but stressed that this deal was non-binding and that it was "uncertain whether the procedures will be implemented."

Orić was charged with war crimes committed against Serbs in eastern Bosnia in 1992 by the Hague Tribunal, but was acquitted. An international warrant for his arrest was issued on February 4 by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution.

Vekarić also commented on the case of Oliver Ivanović, a Serb politician in Kosovo arrested as a suspect in a war crimes case, to say that the prosecution was not informed about it, and had "no information about the arrest and detention."

"It was very surprising to us, we did not even have a trace of Ivanović in any of the cases. He would have been mentioned somewhere in one way or another," said Vekarić.

He confirmed that the prosecution had new information about the crime in Štrpci - that three police officers were involved in the abduction and killing of 19 mostly Muslim civilians there in the early 1990s.

"Those who were supposed to protect passengers from highwaymen - helped to carry out the kidnapping. The passengers were identified in order to see their names, the train was not stopped, witnesses were not questions, indeed a number of mistakes occured that someone has to answer for," said Vekarić.

The paramilitary unit that carried out the crime was commanded by Sreten Lukić, who was convicted in the Hague, but not for the Štrpci case.

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