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Scorpions arrested after video showing | 13:52 June 02 | B92, RFERL

BELGRADE -- Thursday – According to unofficial information received by B92, two members of the Scorpion paramilitary unit, Aleksandar Medic and Pera Petrasevic, have been taken into custody.

The Serbian government has stated that a number of individuals were arrested after the showing of the video in which the Scorpion unit executes a group of Muslims in Srebrenica, but the government never stated who the individuals were.

In talks with The Hague’s Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte today, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said that the Serbian government reacted yesterday, as soon as the footage was shown at Slobodan Milosevic’s Hague war crimes trial.

Del Ponte said that she is pleased with the quick reaction of the Serbian government and called it a “brilliant operation.” She has thanked the government in Belgrade for the swift move and has asked the Serbian government to react in the same way in arresting and extraditing all other Hague fugitives.

Aleksandar Medic is the brother of Slobodan Medic, who was commander of the Scorpion unit, and the third Medic brother, Dragan, has been mentioned in participating in the Podujeva massacre in Kosovo.