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|SFOR compensates Bosnian villagers for damage in |operation to get Karadzic |Friday, 26-Apr-2002 | |SARAJEVO, April 26 (AFP) - NATO-led peacekeepers in |Bosnia paid some 4,000 convertible marks (2,051 euros) |to the Serb inhabitants of a village in south-east |Bosnia to correct "perceived wrongs" in two raids |aimed at arresting war-crimes indictee Radovan |Karadzic, a press release said Friday. |Soldiers from the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) |visited the village of Celebici on Thursday in |response to property damage claims made by villagers |in the aftermath of the force's so-far fruitless |search for Karadzic, SFOR said. |SFOR conducted two consecutive raids in the area on |February 28 and March 1 in a bid to arrest Bosnian |Serb wartime leader, but both attempts ended in |failure. |The villagers were initially informed that their |claims had been rejected, since "claims arising out of combat-related |activities are barred from payments" under the Dayton peace agreement |that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war. |However, the SFOR commander, General John Sylvester, |had authorized payments unrelated to the villagers' |claims, to aid them in repairing damage to their |village. |Meanwhile SFOR troops on Friday airdropped thousands |of leaflets over four Serb-run towns in eastern |Bosnia, offering a reward for information about |Karadzic. |The leaflets used in Friday's drop also outlined |benefits that could be gained from bringing Karadzic |and other war crimes suspects to justice "such as the |increase in aid and employment opportunities," SFOR |said. |Karadzic, the political leader of Bosnia's Serbs |during the war, is the best-known figure still at |large who is wanted by the UN's International Criminal |Court for the former Yugoslavia, which sits in The |Hague. |He is notably wanted for the killing of some 7,000 |Bosnian Muslims in the village of Srebrenica in August |1995, the worst single massacre committed in Europe |since World War II. | | --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
