War crimes suspect arrested in the Netherlands
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News agencies report that Dutch police have arrested a Bosnian citizen, suspected of having committed war crimes.
The identity of the person has still not been made public but the police has informed the public that the arrested person is 39 years old, lives in the vicinity of The Hague and is suspected of having participated in a massacre committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 11, 1993.
He arrived in the Netherlands in 1995, when he also applied for an asylum. The district court at The Hague is in contact with local authorities concerning his eventual extradition. The State Prosecution in Sarajevo has neither been able to confirm this piece of information nor provide any further details.
Data available to Research and Documentation Centre, NVO, indicate that about 100,000 people were killed in the course of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is still not known how many perpetrators of war crimes should be brought before the courts.
