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Serbia still seeking war crime suspects

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Published: July 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM

BELGRADE, Serbia, July 15 (UPI) -- A top Serbian official says his nation is committed to turning alleged war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic over to an international tribunal.

Rasim Ljajic, head of the Serbian council for cooperation with the tribunal, told Blic on Tuesday that extradition wouldn't only open the door for admission to the European Union but would ease domestic political stresses as well.

A problem, Blic added, is that Karadzic and Mladic, the reputed leaders of death squads during the war in Bosnia- Herzegovina in the early 1990s, are fugitives.

Ljajic has told reporters that the pair have apparently been inside Serbia as recently as 2006.

Topics: Radovan Karadzic, Rasim Ljajic, Ratko Mladic
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