U.N. Arrests Serb War Crimes Suspect
A principal suspect in the 1991 massacre of more than 200 people in the Croatian city of Vukovar was arrested by the United Nations. Slavko Dokmanovic, 47, the Serb mayor of Vukovar, was arrested in Eastern Slavonia and was taken to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the U.N. said. This is the first time U.N. officials have arrested a suspect in the former Yugoslavia. Dokmanovic was indicted by the tribunal last year for his role in a 1991 incident in which Serb paramilitary forces took about 260 men from a hospital and allegedly shot them.
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