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> Subject: [alb-information] NATO Arrests Former Serb
> General on War Crimes Charges
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> THE NEW YORK TIMES
> December 21, 1999
> 
> NATO Arrests Former Serb General on War Crimes
> Charges
> 
> By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
> 
> VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France -- NATO peacekeepers in
> Bosnia on Monday arrested a former Bosnian Serb
> general charged with war crimes. 
> 
> Reports from Bosnia said that British troops in the
> zone that
> they control blocked a vehicle carrying retired Maj.
> Gen.
> Stanislav Ganic, commander of the Bosnian Serb
> forces that
> besieged Sarajevo between 1992 and 1994. They
> arrested
> him under a sealed indictment issued by the
> international war
> crimes tribunal in The Hague. 
> 
> Gen. Wesley Clark, the American officer in command
> of all
> NATO forces in Europe, said as he arrived here at an
> air base
> outside Paris that the arrest showed that the
> standing orders
> on handling indicted war criminals could be
> effective. The
> orders had been criticized for not leading to enough
> arrests. 
> 
> "I'm convinced we have the right policy," Clark said
> in an
> interview. He arrived here for a talk with the
> French army's
> chief of staff, Gen. Jean-Pierre Kelche. "Its
> implementation, in
> a culture in which we're outsiders, is
> extraordinarily difficult,"
> Clark said of the policy. 
> 
> His orders allow peacekeepers to arrest suspects
> they run
> across in the normal course of their duties when
> they believe
> it is prudent to do so and when no bystanders will
> get hurt. 
> 
> "I think the NATO forces have acquitted themselves
> very well
> in terms of war-criminal detentions, and the
> deterrent effect,"
> he said. 
> 
> But 12 of the 15 arrests made in Bosnia, including
> Monday's,
> have been by British troops. Both French forces, who
> have
> made no arrests, and American forces in Bosnia have
> come
> under heavy criticism from human rights groups for
> not going
> more aggressively after leaders charged with war
> crimes. 
> 
> Galic, The Hague tribunal said, is charged with
> crimes against
> humanity and violations of war conventions in
> ordering
> shelling and sniping that killed, maimed, and
> wounded
> thousands of civilians in Sarajevo during the
> Bosnian war
> siege. 
> 
> In addition to those accused of war crimes who have
> been
> arrested, 21 have surrendered. Charges have been
> brought
> against 63. "Still," Clark said, "we're acutely
> conscious of the
> fact that some of the most egregious of the accused
> have not
> thus far been detained." 
> 
> Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, the top
> civilian and
> military leaders of the Bosnian Serbs during the
> war, have not
> been arrested. Karadzic is believed to be hiding in
> the French
> sector in Bosnia. 
> 
> Clark will relinquish his command in April to Gen.
> Joseph
> Ralston, at which time there will still be 20,000
> peacekeepers
> from 37 countries, including the United States and
> Russia, in
> Bosnia. But they and many of the thousands of
> peacekeepers
> in Kosovo may have to stay for years. 
> 
> Clark, recalling the allied air operation against
> Serbian forces
> last spring in Kosovo, said that the allies had come
> closer than
> most people realized to launching a ground attack
> against the
> Serbs. 
> 
> "We came quite close to a ground operation at the
> outset," he
> said, because allied forces gathering in Macedonia
> were within
> range of Serb artillery based in southern Serbia and
> inside
> Kosovo. 
> 
> "We had three American servicemen who were kidnapped
> inside Macedonia," he said -- they were freed after
> a visit to
> Belgrade by the Rev. Jesse Jackson -- "and we had
> Serb-inspired and Serb-directed mobs that sacked
> five
> embassies in Skopje one day. 
> 
> "So we were, at that point, nearing a defensive
> operation to
> protect Macedonia," the general said. "Then, as we
> went
> further into the campaign, this threat seemed to
> recede." 
> 
> But President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia,
> Clark said,
> saw that by early June, allied leaders were coming
> closer to
> ordering a ground attack. 
> 
> "Out of the competing military demands and political
> concerns
> emerged the policy," he said. "I think the
> bottom-line
> assessment is that we were successful." 
> 
> Allied diplomacy succeeded in keeping Russia or
> other
> countries opposed to the allied bombing from coming
> to the
> aid of Yugoslavia, in Clark's view. 
> 
> He was not prepared to say that he had been wrong to
> order
> Gen. Michael Jackson, the British commander who led
> NATO
> troops into Kosovo last June, to seize Pristina
> airfield when a
> Russian armored convoy arrived in a surprise
> post-midnight
> foray. 
> 
> But Jackson sent the order to London, where his
> superiors,
> backed by Secretary of Defense William Cohen in
> Washington,
> overruled Clark. The Russian convoy then staked out
> the
> ground as its own. 
> 
> The dispute, Clark said Monday, had been a policy
> issue, not
> a personality issue between him and Jackson. "Time
> will tell
> whether it was a correct resolution or not," he
> said. "We're
> very happy to have the Russians with us in Kosovo."
> 
> 
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