(1 Jun 2007) SHOTLIST
FILE:
Han Pijesak, Bosnia - 19 July, 1996
1. Pan of meeting between NATO's General Michael Walker and war crimes fugitive General Zdravko Tolimir
2. Mid of Tolimir at table
3. Close of Tolimir
4. Tolimir speaking
5. Tolimir and Walker shaking hands
FILE:
Pale, Bosnia - 16 February 1996
6. Mid of Tolimir
FILE:
Date and location unknown
7. Mid of Tolimir speaking
Bratunac, Bosnia, on the border with Serbia - 31 May 2007
8. Wide of street
9. Sign reading Bratunac
10. Local municipal office
11. Various of streets
Banja Luka, Bosnia - 31May 2007
12. Various of police checking vehicles on road
13. Wide of main police headquarters - where Tolimir is rumoured to be
14. Sign at front of headquarters
15. Various of police outside headquarters
The Hague, Netherlands - 31 May 2007
16. Exterior of ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia)
17. UN Flag
18. Set up shot of Refik Hodzic of the ICTY registry
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Refik Hodzic, ICTY registry:
"We have been informed that Zdravko Tolimir has been arrested, by the Bosnian authorities, the authorities of Republika Srpska, and currently arrangements are being made for his transfer to the detention unit of the ICTY. We have also been informed that he has certain health problems, and we are trying at the moment to assess, to see exactly what they are, and whether need to accommodate that during the transfer."
20. ICTY sign
STORYLINE
Zdravko Tolimir, a former Bosnian Serb general charged with genocide and crimes against humanity by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was arrested Thursday on the Bosnia-Serbia border, police said.
Tolimir was a top aide to the Bosnian Serbs' wartime military commander, General Ratko Mladic, during the slaughter of over 7-thousand Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II.
He is considered the third most wanted war crimes suspect still at large in the Balkans after Mladic and Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic.
Olga Kavran, the spokeswoman for the chief UN war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia, said they were informed of the arrest by Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.
Refik Hodzic, of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia registry, told AP Television "we have been informed that Zdravko Tolimir has been arrested, by the Bosnian authorities, the authorities of Republika Srpska, and currently arrangements are being made for his transfer to the detention unit of the ICTY."
"We have also been informed that he has certain health problems, and we are trying to asses, to see exactly what they are, and whether need to accommodate that during the transfer," he added.
In the meantime, Tolimir is rumoured to have been held in Banja Luka.
Tolimir, who was reported to have organised Mladic's escape from justice, was arrested after a major security sweep of the border region that included helicopters and anti-terrorist units, the Bosnian Serb police said.
As a ranking intelligence and security officer during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Tolimir, 59, was charged in 2005 by the UN tribunal with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, extermination, murder, persecution, forcible transfer and deportation, as well as murder in connection with the Srebrenica massacre.
The indictment against Tolimir alleges that, "with an intent to destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslim people as a national, ethnical, or religious group, ... (he) killed members of the group by planned and opportunistic summary executions."
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