(30 May 2003)
Krupa - 23 December 1995
1. General Momir Talic talking to soldier
2. Cutaway to photographer
3. Close shot of Talic saying "I believe this war is finally over."
Vlasic, Bosnia - 18 April 1995
4. Talic salutes Karadzic
5. Talic and Karadzic walking
Banja Luka - 26 August 1997
6. Talic and other Serb generals walk down stairs at Plavsic HQ
7. Generals leave presidency building
Pale, Bosnia - 18 June 1995
8. News conference for UN hostages held by Bosnian Serbs released on 18 June, 1995, with Jovica Stanisic (second from left of picture), Serbian secret police chief and envoy of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Nikola Koljavec and Bosnian Serb Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Buha
9. Close up Simatovic
10. Stanisic (left of picture) and Koljavec
11. Cameraman
12. Reporters
STORYLINE:
Momir Talic, a Bosnian Serb general charged by the UN war crimes court with genocide, has died, doctors said on Thursday at the age of 61.
Talic died on Wednesday in Belgrade's military hospital.
Talic was released in September from UN detention in The Hague, Netherlands because he had cancer.
He went on trial with co-defendant Radoslav Brdjanin in January 2002.
They faced 12 counts of war crimes, including genocide, and had pleaded innocent.
Prosecutors say that during the 1992-1995 Balkan war, Talic and Brdjanin played a leading role in a purge that left hundreds dead and 100,000 expelled from their homes.
Talic was instrumental in the formation of the Bosnian Serb army in 1992 together with his ally, General Ratko Mladic, a top war crimes suspect who remains at large and hiding.
Meanwhile, Belgrade's District Court said it will extradite a former paramilitary leader indicted by the Netherlands-based war crimes tribunal.
Franko Simatovic, also known as Frenki, who headed notorious Serb units in the 1991-1995 Bosnian and Croatian wars, was indicted together with Milosevic's former state security chief, Jovica Stanisic, on five counts of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.
Founded and commanded by the two, the dreaded Serb paramilitary units spread terror in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s in efforts to annexe the then territories to Serbia.
Simatovic and his former boss Stanisic were arrested in Belgrade during a police investigation into the March 12 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
Although the two have not been officially charged here, authorities have linked them to the underworld and paramilitary network accused of Djindjic's slaying.
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