NATO troops raid homes of Karadzic's son and daughter

Описание: (20 Feb 2007) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of security forces around house of Sonja Karadzic, daughter of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic
2. Pan of NATO vehicles (Italian Carabinieri) passing by
3. Wide of NATO troops running towards apartment block
4. Various of troops in front of premises
5. Pull out troops inside apartment block
6. Medium of apartment lights
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Chappel, NATO spokesman:
"This NATO operation is being carried out in support of the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia). It's over 11 years since the war ended in this country and the fact that the most wanted war criminals are still at large is an obscenity. Madam Prosecutor has expressed her disappointment over the past week at the fact they are still at large. NATO is here in Pale tonight conducting search operations at the home of the Karadzic family, (Karadzic's son) Sasa and (daughter) Sonja's home. We are doing that due to a belief that they are intimately involved in the support network that allows Radovan Karadzic to remain at large. We have been here before and we'll come back again, and again, as the evidence suggests they are involved in this network. This is unfinished business and it's time that it was finished. We take our commitment to this country seriously and NATO will continue to act aggressively against any supporters of the fugitive war criminals."
8. Wide of soldiers outside apartment block
9. Close up of soldier carrying hand gun
STORYLINE
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops in Bosnia raided early on Tuesday morning the homes of the daughter and the son of Radovan Karadzic, the UN tribunal's most wanted war crimes suspect at large.
"NATO is here in Pale tonight conducting search operations at the home of the Karadzic family, Sasa and Sonja's home. We are doing that due to a belief that they are intimately involved in the support network that allows Radovan Karadzic to remain at large," NATO spokesman in Bosnia, Derek Chappel said.
At around 3 a.m. Local time, troops broke the doors on two residential buildings in Pale, 15 kilometres (9 miles) east of Sarajevo, where daughter Sonja and son Sasa live with their families.
Sonja Karadzic answered a phone call made by the Associated Press as troops were breaking the entrance into the building, where she lives on the
second floor with her husband and two children.
"Someone is breaking in. We and the neighbours asked who they are and they said 'police'," she said and hung up abruptly.
Troops entered the building where Sasa Karadzic lives with his family in the same manner.
"We have been here before and we'll come back again, and again, as the evidence suggests they are involved in this network. This is unfinished business and it's time that it was finished," said Chappel.
"We take our commitment to this country seriously and NATO will continue to act aggressively against any supporters of the fugitive war criminals," he added.
Both Sonja and Sasa Karadzic will be interviewed and their homes searched for any evidence or any information about the support to Radovan Karadzic or his whereabouts, he said.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his general, Ratko Mladic, are sought on genocide charges by the UN tribunal in The Hague,
Netherlands, for their alleged role in atrocities committed by Serb troops during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
At large for over 11 years, Mladic is believed to be hiding in Serbia, while Karadzic's whereabouts are unknown.

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