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Article: Bosnia's war criminals enjoy peacetime power
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1996
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PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- It only takes a phone call to
nearby Omarska to discover the whereabouts of Zjelko Mejakic, one of
the West's most wanted indicted war criminals.
"Zjelko?" says the operator at the town police station. "He's
not here at the moment, but he'll definitely be here later."
Mejakic, the Bosnian Serb former commander of the notorious
Omarska prison camp, is deputy police chief, despite his indictment
for genocide by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague.
And he is not alone: Three indicted war criminals work at the
Prijedor police station, according to United Nations and Bosnian Serb
sources.
Nearly a year after ...