BOSNIAN SERB LEADERS PROBED FOR WAR CRIMES

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and two of his lieutenants will beinvestigated as suspected war criminalsby the U.N.'s Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. The tribunal will investigate Karadzic, Bosnian Serb army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and the former head of the Bosnian Serb special police Mico Stanisic for genocide, torture and rape. The action does not include formal charges against the men but the investigation is expected to result in charges. The tribunal has indicted twenty-two Serbs forcrimes including genocide, murder and rape, but only one, Dusan Tadic, is in custody. He was extradited by Germany to the The Hague today and will stand trial in a few months.

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