UN police arrest four Protection Corps members
B92 - February 16, 2004

PRISTINA -- Monday – UN police and NATO-led peacekeepers have arrested four members of the Kosovo Protection Corps on suspicion of murder, a UN police spokesman confirmed this morning.

A police statement specified that one of the detainees is an officer in the UN-created civilian response unit.

Media reports have named him as Selim Krasniqi, a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

The statement insisted the operation was aimed at individuals, not the entire Protection Corps.

Unofficial sources in Pristina say the arrests could be linked to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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