NATO officers fret about war-crimes role: Further searches for bodies unlikely.(A)

From: The Washington Times | Date: February 6, 1996| Author: Smucker, Philip | Copyright information

LJUBIJA, Bosnia - NATO officers are concerned they may have exceeded their mandate by sending military frogmen to investigate an abandoned mineshaft where Bosnian Serb rebels are suspected of tossing the bodies of thousands of murdered prisoners.

Canadian and British military sources confirmed for the first time that frogmen went into the mineshaft, but they said further such investigations were unlikely because of NATO's reluctance to get directly involved in probing w...