On Monday morning, the former commander of one of the corps of the Sreb army, General Galic, was captured by soldiers of the Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Three SFOR vehicles blocked Galich's car, broke the windows, removed the general and took him away in an unknown direction. During the arrest, Galich received minor injuries, RIA Novosti reports.

The general's arrest was officially confirmed by the command of the southwestern sector of the SFOR.

Galic was arrested on the basis of a secret indictment issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is accused of crimes against humanity and violating the laws of war. It is alleged that his criminal actions are connected with the deliberate shelling of the civilian population of Sarajevo by the Serbs in 1992-1994. Galic then commanded an army corps besieging Sarajevo. Immediately after the end of the war, Galic retired and worked as an adviser, first in the office of the president, and then the vice-president of the Serbian Republic.

The leader of the Democratic Party and member of the lower house of parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nikola Spirić, called Galic's arrest a "disgraceful and shameful act."

According to the chairman of the Democratic Progress Party of the Republika Srpska, Madlen Ivanic, the political authorities of Serbia bear a large share of responsibility for the arrest of the Serbs accused by the tribunal in The Hague. Ivanovich said that the republic’s institutions are not seriously enough collecting materials about possible war crimes.

NATO Secretary General George Robertson issued a special statement noting that SFOR's actions "are consistent with their
mandate that authorizes the arrest of those accused of war crimes."
International Tribunal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte welcomed Galic and said the move was in line with her policy of prosecuting high command officials for crimes committed during the Bosnian conflict.

The date of Galich's first appearance before the judges of the international tribunal has not yet been announced.

Serbian General Stanislav Galic arrested in Bosnia