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WORLD
FRIDAY,APRIL26,2002
War crimes suspect surrenders
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Yugoslavia's former army commander, indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for atrocities his forces committed during a brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, headed to the Netherlands yesterday to surrender to the court in The Hague.
Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic, a top suspect whose troops drove 800,000 people from their homes and killed thousands during the 1998-99 war in the Serbian province, told reporters at Belgrade's airport that he felt "like any other hero" as he headed to the tribunal to face justice.
Ojdanic, who traveled on a commercial flight to Amsterdam with his wife and a lawyer, was among six suspects who said they
would voluntarily surrender rather than face possible arrest and extradition. A total of 24 Serbs were on the U.N. court's list of suspects wanted for alleged war crimes committed during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
They took part in war campaigns led by Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president already on trial in The Hague. Ojdanic, 60, has denied that his troops committed atrocities and insisted the charges against him were unfounded.
Yugoslavia's current leadership, which extradited Milosevic last year, has been under strong Western pressure to hand over the remaining suspects or risk losing millions of dollars in badly needed U.S. aid.
Earlier this month, after an intense political debate, pro-Western advocates of cooperation with the U.N. court prevailed and the Yugoslav parliament passed a bill allowing extraditions to the tribunal. The government then issued a deadline to the wanted men to surrender or face arrest; that deadline expired at midnight Monday, and on Wednesday, authorities delivered a list of suspects to a Belgrade court in preparation for arrests and extradition.
Oidanic was charged along with Milosevic for alleged war crimes in Kosovo during the crackdown by government forces on the province's pro-independence ethnic Albanians.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, said the surrenders, were a result of "international obligations which cannot be avoided."
CARACAS, Venezuela — An anti-crime guru credited with cleaning up New York vows his police plan for Venezuela's capital will survive a recent coup and hostility from President Hugo Chavez's government.
The Associated Press
Former New York City police commissioner William Bratton told The Associated Press he expects to renew a $180,000 consulting contract with the mayor of greater Caracas despite the resignations of two top cops charged with implementing his crime-fighting strategy.
Bratton was New York's top cop under ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from 1994-1996 and was credited with a dramatic drop in The Big Apple's crime
New Yorker cleans up crime
rates. He was hired to help do the same in Caracas, a sprawling capital of 7 million people.
The loss of Police Commissioner Ivan Simonovis and Subcommissioner Luis Casarraquel are a "significant loss to the Bratton Plan," he said in a telephone interview late Wednesday.
But, Bratton vowed: "I have every expectation and every desire to come back. ... The major deficiency that still needs to be addressed is the lack of support from the national government. It's been a serious impediment."
Simonovis and Carrasquel quit after Chavez was ousted in an April 12 coup by generals disgusted with the slayings of at least 17 people during a massive opposition march. It is unclear who committed the slayings.
Chavez was restored to power April 14 after a popular rebellion and the collapse of an interim government headed by business leaders.
The aftershocks continue. Simonovis and Carrasquel quit last week, saying a lack of federal support and a Chavez-inspired rebellion within their metropolitan police force made their jobs impossible.
The two reported to Greater Caracas Mayor Alfredo Pena, a staunch Chavez critic who had hired Bratton to revamp a corrupt police force and combat violent crime that claims dozens of lives each week.
His plan for Caracas included creating a computer database to identify crime patterns.
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