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![]() Wednesday, March 31, 1999 Published at 17:03 GMT 18:03 UK ![]() ![]() World: Europe ![]() Arkan wanted by UN tribunal ![]() Arkan at a Belgrade folk concert: UN wants him for war crimes ![]() The United Nations criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia has disclosed that it is seeking the arrest of the Serbian paramilitary leader known as Arkan.
"In light of recent reports of his alleged involvement in Kosovo. I have decided to make public the existence of an indictment against...Arkan," said the tribunal's chief prosecutor Louise Arbour. Ms Arbour said the announcement was intended as an "unambiguous signal" to Arkan's associates.
The arrest warrant had been issued already in 1997, but UN prosecutors have adopted a policy of keeping indictments under seal to facilitate arrests. Ms Arbour said the court order to make the warrant public did not apply to details of the indictment itself. The document would remain sealed until Arkan's arrest. Charges of atrocities Arkan is leader of a paramilitary group known as the Tigers, alleged to be responsible for atrocities that were carried out in Vukovar in Croatia and at Bijeljna in Bosnia at the start of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. In the last few days, Arkan has been reportedly been seen in Kosovo, but in interviews he has said that his men would only go to the Serbian province if Nato ground troops set foot on Yugoslav soil. He was recently seen in Belgrade, where he was quoted as saying that his men might go to Kosovo if Nato ground troops set foot on Yugoslav soil.
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