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Senators call for more support of war crimes tribunal
May 6, 1999
Web posted at: 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, May 6) -- A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is
urging President Bill Clinton to show more support for the effort to have
Yugoslav leaders branded war criminals and stand trial.
In a letter to Clinton, 16 senators call for the United States and the United
Nations mission in Bosnia to pursue the arrest of former Bosnian-Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic for his alleged involvement in atrocities in the war in
Bosnia.
Karadzic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague in
1995. The senators say his arrest would send a strong message to Belgrade that
leaders there will be held accountable for alleged war crimes.
While in Washington last week, Justice Louise Arbour, the head of the
tribunal, urged NATO and the U.S. to pursue a number of indicted Yugoslav war
criminals still at large, including Karadzic.
In addition, the lawmakers are also pushing for additional funding for the
tribunal to facilitate investigations into allegations of war crimes in
Kosovo.
The senators contend that the $5 million requested by the White House is not
adequate and should be quadrupled to $20 million.
There was also a call to establish a war crimes center in the U.S., using
personnel from the State Department, Justice Department, FBI and intelligence
agencies. The purpose would be to help coordinate all data collected on war
crimes and be a central referral service to the Tribunal.
The senators who signed the letter are: Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), Frank
Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Dick Lugar (R-Indiana), Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont),
Patrick Moynihan (D-New York), John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), Mary Landrieu
(D-Louisiana), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Harry Reid (D-Nevada), Orrin Hatch
(R-Utah), Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Trent Lott
(R-Mississippi), Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland), Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota),
and George Voinovich (R-Ohio).
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