DATE=1/22/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-225654
TITLE=WAR CRIMINAL ARREST (L)
BYLINE=JIM RANDLE
DATELINE=ALASKA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WILLIAM COHEN ANNOUNCED THE ARREST
OF AN INDICTED WAR CRIMINAL IN BOSNIA. THE MAN IS ACCUSED OF
MURDER, TORTUE, RAPE AND GENOCIDE. V-O-A'S JIM RANDLE REPORTS THE
TROOPS WHO MADE THE ARREST IN THIS CASE WERE MOSTLY AMERICANS.
TEXT: MR. COHEN SAID THE S-4 TROOPS IN BOSNIA ARRESTED GORAN
JELISIC IN BEJELINA, ABOUT 50 KILOMETERS NORTHEAST OF TUZLA. THE
INDICTMENT SAYS THE MAN RAN A PISON CAMP NEAR BRCKO AND DESCRIBED
HIMSELF AS A SERB HITLER.
SECRETARY COHEN SAYS THE ARREST CAME UNDER THE DAYTON PEACE
ACCORD.
///COHEN ACT///
OF COURSE UNDER DAYTON, THE PARTIES TO DAYTON HAVE TO
HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITIES (TO ARREST INDICTED CRIMINALS)
BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY DON'T CARRY OUT THAT
RESPONSIBILITY AND TO THE EXTENT THAT S-4 TROOPS THAT
ARE COMING INTO CONTACT (WITH THOSE INDICTED), ON
GREATER AND GREATER OCCASSIONS, HAVE THE CAPACITY, HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY, TO ARREST THEM -- THEY WILL.
//END ACT///
MR. COHEN SPOKE ABOARD HIS OFFICIAL AIRCRAFT ON THE WAY HOME FROM
AN ASIAN TRIP -- JUST BEFORE MAKING AN UNSCHEDULED RE-FUELING
STOP HERE IN ALASKA. (SIGNED)
NEB/JR/TMD-T/KL
22-Jan-98 9:54 AM EST (1454 UTC)
NNNN
Source: Voice of America
.
|
NEWSLETTER
|
|
Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list
|
|
|
