(9 Aug 2005)
1. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) poster showing persons indicted for war crimes
2. Milan Lukic being escorted into court house by police
FILE - 1992
3. Mid shot of Milan Lukic in combat fatigues and carrying rifle
STORYLINE:
Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, arrested in Argentina, is accused by the UN war crimes tribunal of some of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war.
On the run since the late 1990s, Lukic was arrested by Argentine police on Monday in a residential neighbourhood of the capital Buenos Aires. Argentine authorities provided no other details of the arrest.
Many in Bosnia say the tall, dark-haired militia commander spread terror wherever he went during the 1992-95 war.
The indictment prepared by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands charges Lukic with organising a group of paramilitaries who "committed, planned, instigated and ordered the executions" of Bosnian Muslims in the territory of Visegrad and elsewhere in Bosnian Serb-controlled areas between May 1992 and October 1994.
It contains some of the darkest allegations to emerge from Bosnia's ethnic bloodletting.
The accusations outlined in the indictment indicate patterns of action - Lukic and his men suddenly rounding up Muslims, barricading them in buildings and burning them alive, or coralling them on riverbanks, torturing them to death or shooting them, and dumping their bodies in the water.
Last month, a Serbian court convicted Lukic in absentia of abducting 16 Muslims off a bus in western Serbia in 1992, taking them across the border to Bosnia, torturing them in a hotel and killing them at the Drina River.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Lukic, born in 1967 in a village near Visegrad, lived in Germany, Switzerland and Serbia, but returned to Visegrad in 1992, where he first formed the White Eagles paramilitary group, with ties to the Serb police in Visegrad, according to the UN indictment.
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