Bosnia: Posters in Sarajevo offer reward for Karadzic and Mladic

(19/1/2002)SARAJEVO (January 19) - Posters with photos of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the UN war crimes tribunal's most-wanted fugitives, appeared in Sarajevo today announcing a reward of up to $US5 million ($A9.73 million) for information leading to their arrest, reported AFP. The black-and-white posters, that include a cellular phone number and an e-mail address for contacts, were printed by the Rewards for Justice program of the US State Department, established under a 1984 Act to combat international terrorism, the US embassy here said. The program offers a reward of up to US$5 million for information leading to transfer to, or conviction by, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of Karadzic and Mladic or any other person indicted by the tribunal. Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader, and Mladic, his military commander, are both indicted for genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war by The Hague-based UN tribunal. The two are believed to be hiding in the Bosnian Serb-run entity of Republican Srpska or neighboring Yugoslavia. The media here recently speculated that special US units were deployed in Bosnia with the task of arresting Karadzic and Mladic. The information could not be confirmed.

//Shqiptarja.com

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