Thursday, June 12, 2008

"I AM NOT STOJAN ŽUPLJANIN" CLAIMS SERBIAN WAR CRIMES SUSPECT ARRESTED YESTERDAY

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (June 12,2008) – A man arrested in the genocidal Serbia yesterday has told an investigative judge that he is not Serbian war criminal Stojan Župljanin.

The arrested man claimed to be Branislav Vukadin and therefore did not give any statement because the judge had to order a DNA analysis for which police have 24 hours, meaning that the deadline expires early afternoon today.

During the arrest, the man had identification on him in the name of Branislav Vukadin and police are investigating whether that was a fake.

Serbian war criminal Stojan Župljanin, one of the three leaders of the genocidal paramilitary fascist formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia ,is indicted for "ethnic cleansing", torture,mass murder and other war crimes against Bosnian civilians committed during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

Police say he was arrested Wednesday in the town of Pancevo, outside Belgrade.Meanwhile, the United States, the European Union and the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, based in The Hague,The Netherlands. have welcomed the arrest but also told Belgrade it should locate and apprehend the three top Serbian war criminals still at large.

They are: Serbian war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, former leaders of the genocidal paramilitary fascist formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia - both charged by the ICTY twice with genocide, and Serbian war criminal Goran Hadžić,former leader of the Serbians living in Croatia, charged with war crimes against Croatian civilians committed during the 1991-1995 Serbian aggression against Croatia.
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