Police raid Bosnian village searching for people posing security threat
By APTuesday, February 2, 2010
Hundreds of police raid village in Bosnia
GORNJA MAOCA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Authorities say hundreds of police have raided a village in Bosnia to search for people who pose a security threat to the country.
The Office of the State Prosecutor says the raid in the northeast village of Gornja Maoca is the largest police operation in Bosnia since its 1992-1995 war.
It says the 600 officers who surrounded, then raided the village of about 100 people Tuesday are looking for people suspected of jeopardizing Bosnia’s security and spreading national, racial and religious hatred.
The isolated village is home to strictly observant Muslim families, including some who fought in the Bosnia’s war involving Muslim Bosniaks, Christian Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats.
Reporters were kept out of the village during the raid.
