French SFOR Troops Kill Serb Suspect Resisting Arrest While Bosnian Serb Denies War Crimes and Milosevic Denies Entry to War Crimes Prosecutor

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Monday, February 1, 1999

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

15

Issue:

2

76-78

Abstract:

On January 9, 1999, French troops shot and killed Dragan Gagovic, a suspected Bosnian Serb war criminal as he prepared to ram the soldiers with his vehicle at a mountain roadblock established to arrest him. On January 21, 1999, a former Bosnia Serb chief pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges. During January 18, 1999 and afterwards, Louise Arbour, the chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal, visited the border to Kosovo, but was unable to gain access to collect evidence about a massacre of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo on January 15, 1999... [more]