Who will catch Bosnia war criminals?
Pentagon declines to participate December 19, 1996 Web posted at: 9:30 p.m. EST (0230 GMT) From Military Correspondent Jamie McIntyre WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry said Thursday he supports giving U.S. troops in Bosnia a potentially dangerous new mission: providing security for a proposed international police force that would hunt down indicted war criminals and bring them to trial. NATO has steadfastly refused to send its peacekeepers on a manhunt for war criminals in Bosnia. That position has not changed. However, at a NATO meeting this week in Brussels, defense ministers voiced support for the idea of an international police force to arrest war crimes’ suspects. Local authorities had agreed under the Dayton peace accord to arrest alleged war criminals, then turn them over to authorities. But so far, only seven of 80 people indicted on war crimes have been prosecuted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague. Some of the suspects who are still f
