Posted on 08/08/2005 2:49:17 PM PDT by Diocletian
A Bosnian Serb fugitive sentenced for crimes committed during the Bosnian war and wanted by a UN war crimes court has been arrested in Argentina.
Police say Milan Lukic, who has been on the run for more than five years, was arrested in Buenos Aires.
He was indicted by the UN's war crimes tribunal for crimes said to have been carried out during the Bosnian war.
He is also wanted in Serbia, where he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison for war crimes.
'Reign of terror'
In 2003, a court in Belgrade found Lukic and three other men guilty of torturing and murdering 16 Muslim civilians whom they abducted from a bus travelling from Serbia to Bosnia in 1992.
Yugoslav officials say Lukic headed a paramilitary group believed to be responsible for abducting, torturing and killing the victims, all Yugoslav nationals.
The incident - known as the Sjeverin case after the town where the victims were kidnapped - was the most serious crime to take place on Serbian territory during the Balkan wars in the early 1990s.
In the indictment from the tribunal at The Hague, Lukic is accused of forming a paramilitary group in 1992 which worked with local police and military units to exact a "reign of terror" against Bosnian Muslims in the Bosnian city of Visegrad.
Lukic is being held in a Buenos Aires jail and is expected to appear in court for questioning before a federal judge in the coming days.
Serbs were the good guys, to the extent there were any.
And I say that with chunks of glass in me thanks to (presumably --- we were over their zone) Serb AAA.
Small potatoes.
I'm thinking Karadzic about now.
As I predicted long ago, Karadzic was at Ostrog Monastery....we will find out soon enough.
Were you a fighter pilot? Were you shot at over Bosnia or Serbia? Can you tell us what day, time of day (Serbs said a lot of the bombing was at night), exactly where and other details or are you not permitted to give (some of) that information?
No, I was a helicopter pilot, and we did not get shot "down," merely shot up pretty good.
Weapon unknown (theoretically could have been a .50 and a sniper or a farmer with a lucky shot --- we were all of 50 feet off the ground), but it blew out the side of the canopy.
I'm going to guess you were shot at somewhere near the border with Macedonia or Albania and Kosovo. Am I right?
Let me go read my commendation and I'll tell you. LOL. But yeah, generally speaking.
I think I made it sound more exciting that it was.
Dr K is a good guy and feel he should turn himself in for the good of Serbs.
joan, why does it matter you require that information? What is your clearance, you don't have one and therefore don't rate to know that information.
He is everywhere, having tea with everyone.
I recall reading about Milan Lukic. Was involved in the Drina Valley offensive in 1992, especially around Visegrad.
So much for the often made excuse that Serbian courts are not adequate or willing enough to convict their own. (the lame excuse made to justify the kangaroo "court" in the Hague that no democracy would be willing to send its own citizens to).
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