Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- Austrian judicial authorities decided Friday to keep a former Bosnian general in custody because there is enough evidence of possible war crimes against him, a judge said, according to dpa. Serbia had initiated an international arrest warrant for retired general Jovan Divjak, accusing him of being among the commanders who ordered a 1992 attack on a former Yugoslav Army convoy in Sarajevo. He was arrested Thursday evening at Vienna airport and will likely stay in a prison in Korneuburg near Vienna for at least two weeks, until a court there decides on the extradition, judge Christa Zemanek said. "He will likely appeal" his detention, she said, adding that Divjak might also be released if the court received exonerating evidence. Serbian authorities say around 40 soldiers were killed during the 1992 ambush at the start of the Bosnian war. Bosnian Muslim officials contend that the death toll was lower. The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague has raised no charges related to the attack. The arrest of Divjak on a Serbian warrant has a "political dimension," the Croat representative in the collective Bosnian Presidency, Zeljko Komsic, told a news conference in Sarjaevo Friday. The Muslim member of the Presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, told the same conference said that it was "just a question of time when Divjak will return to Sarajevo." Izetbegovic said that Divjak's arrest is the latest case of arrests of Bosnian citizens on dubious warrants from Serbia. -- SPA 041438 GMT Mrz 11
