NATO has said that its peacekeeping forces in Bosnia have arrested a Serbian war crimes suspect. Zoran Vukovic is accused of crimes against humanity, including the rape and torture of Muslim women in July 1992. Vukovic was the deputy commander of the Bosnian Serb military police. NATO said that he is being transferred to The Hague, where the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is based.
NATO-led peacekeepers have declined to give details of where or how they captured Vukovic. He was detained late on Thursday but the news was only made public today. A total of seven people have been publicly indicted for war crimes in this Eastern Bosnian town; four suspects are still at large. The arrest of Vukovic comes just days after the high profile capture of Stanislav Galic, the Bosnian Serb General who supervised the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990’s. However, the two most wanted men from the war, the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top General Radko Mladic have yet to be captured.
