EUFOR and Norwegian Officials Arrest Karadzic Associates

Officials in Norway have arrested a 40-year old man for war crimes committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. According to Norwegian police officials, the man is alleged to have committed rape, illegal detentions and "a series of cases of gross violence" against Bosnian Serbs. Norway does not have war crimes legislation, but is considering draft laws before parliament. He is the second man Norwegian to be arrested for war crimes committed in Bosnia. Norwegian officials estimate as many as 50 suspected war criminals are hiding there.

On May 7, troops from the European Union peacekeeping force in Bosnia-Herzegoniva (EUFOR) raided the home of Vojislav Topalovic, a member of the support network for the fugitive war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Karadzic and his military chief, Ratko Mladic, have been indicted for war crimes by The Hague in association with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Karadzic and Mladic are complicit in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.

The EUFOR raid was conducted at the request of the ICTY.

Also of note, four of the six men arrested in regards to the Fort Dix plot in the US were ethnic Albanians born in the former Yugoslavia.

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