The Hague - Austrian police yesterday seized the head of the Bosnian Serb army - the highest ranking officer yet detained on behalf of UN prosecutors - on charges that he directed brutal oppression of Muslims and Croats in 1992.
Gen Momir Talic commanded troops in the Krajina region of north-western Bosnia during the 1992-1995 conflict. The general, who was in Vienna for a military conference organised by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, was unaware that his name appeared on a "sealed" indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.
