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The hunt continues....
Sarajevo/Banja Luka - The European
Union Force (EUFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina and NATO on Wednesday raided a number
of targets in the north of the country owned by an alleged supporter of the most
wanted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.
In a joint operation, supported by
the local law enforcement agencies in the northern Bosnian Serb town of
Prnjavor, NATO and EUFOR searched the home, company and a bar owned by Nemanja
Vasic, a former Bosnian Serb official and close associate of former leader
Karadzic. A number of documents were seized
during the operation, according to NATO and EUFOR. The seized documents should provide
more valuable information about Radovan Karadzic\'s support network as well as
about the fugitive\'s whereabouts, the statement said.
\'The search was conducted in an
effort to find additional information about Radovan Karadzic\'s support network
in an effort to determine his location,\' NATO said in a statement.
The operation was \'carefully
planned and coordinated with the local authorities and intelligence,\' according
to EUFOR. The Hague-based International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted Karadzic for war
crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva
Conventions during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
More than a decade after the
indictment Karadzic still remains at large. During the 1992-1995 war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Vasic was mayor of Prnjavor, a member of Karadzic\'s Serb
Democratic Party (SDS) and a strong follower of the former leader.
Due to his political standings and
support for Karadzic, the international community\'s former high representative
in ? 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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