BELGRADE, Serbia, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A top Yugoslav official said Wednesday he did not know whether a Bosnian-Serb general indicted by The Hague war-crimes tribunal is in the country.
"I cannot give you an answer," Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic said when asked about General Dragomir Milosevic's whereabouts. "I do not have sufficiently up-to-date information to provide you with an answer."
The war crimes tribunal on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against Milosevic for the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. He is the fifth Republika Srpska general to be indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bosnia.
The indictment charges him individually as head of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps with spreading terror between Aug. 10, 1994, and Nov. 21, 1994, through a campaign of persistent sniper fire and artillery and mortar attacks on Sarajevo's civilian population. The strategy was used to kill, maim, injure and terrorize the residents, thousands of whom were killed, the indictment said.
From April 1995, the corps used large fragmenting bombs, causing material damage, and killing and wounding many, it said.
Milosevic and his predecessor in the post, Gen. Stanislav Galic, were accused of the same crimes. Galic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb army, were indicted for genocide.
Milosevic is now retired. Reports from Banja Luka, the administrative center of the Republika Srpska, said Wednesday he had left Bosnia and was in Yugoslav territory.
