NATO-Led Forces Arrest 1992 Massacre Suspect
NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina arrested a Bosnian Serb man who had been secretly indicted by the U.N. tribunal in the massacre of more than 200 people in August 1992.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said the arrest of Darko Mrdja, who allegedly headed a special police unit that carried out the massacre, should serve as a warning to other fugitives, in particular Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic.
NATO said that Mrdja’s unit is accused of killing at least 228 non-Serb men on Mt. Vlasic in Bosnia.
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