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French support for the International Criminal Court for Yugoslavia
Serbian war crimes suspect arrested by French and German SFOR soldiers
July 2002
French and German soldiers in SFOR—the NATO-led Stabilization Force—arrested former Serbian paramilitary Radovan Stankovic near the town of Foca, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on July 9. He has been charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with war crimes including the organization of enslavement and the systematic rapes of Muslim women in the town of Miljevina. SFOR carried out the arrest in conformity with Resolution 1247 of the United Nations Security Council and the Dayton Peace Convention. Stankovic was immediately handed over to the Tribunal’s representatives in Sarajevo in order to be presented to the relevant jury at the international Court in The Hague, Netherlands. France’s Ministry of Defense noted that the operation’s success was due to close cooperation between the French and German soldiers serving in SFOR. French forces were involved in 8 of the 27 SFOR arrests of war criminals since 1997. Embassy of France in the US - July 12, 2002
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