Bosnian Serb army chief is seized

Banja Luka - NATO-led peacekeepers yesterday arrested a Bosnian Serb army colonel who commanded a brigade in eastern Bosnia during…

Banja Luka - NATO-led peacekeepers yesterday arrested a Bosnian Serb army colonel who commanded a brigade in eastern Bosnia during the 1992-5 war, according to the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry.

Blagojevic was the wartime commander of an infantry and engineering brigade of the Bosnian Serb army's Drina corps. His zone of operations included Srebrenica, which was ethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population.

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