(1 Jun 2007) SHOTLIST
+AP TELEVISION NEWS EXCLUSIVE+
Rotterdam Airport
1. Wide of US Air Force plane arriving at Rotterdam airport
2. Wide of plane taxiing
3. Wide of people getting off plane, including Tolimir (second person to descend from plane, wearing long brown raincoat)
4. Magnified shot of people getting off plane, including Tolimir (second person to descend from plane, wearing long brown raincoat)
Rotterdam Airport
5. Wide of plane parked on runway
6. Convoy of cars leaving airport
The Hague
7. Arrival of police convoy at prison gates which are then blocked by other police cars
8. Various exteriors of prison, barbed wire and windows
The Hague
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Refik Hodzic, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) spokesperson
"He was, today, around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, placed in custody of the tribunal's detention unit in Scheveningen. Immediately upon his arrival he had a very basic medical check by the medical officer of the detention unit and it was decided that, due to exhaustion, he be placed in the prison hospital penitentiary hospital of the Scheveningen complex so he can rest over the next couple of days."
10. Cut away
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Refik Hodzic, ICTY spokesperson
"His initial appearance before trial Chamber Two is scheduled for Monday for 4.30 in the afternoon."
12. Cutaway ICTY and UN flag
STORYLINE:
Zdravko Tolimir, a former Bosnian Serb general charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, was taken into custody at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday.
The senior aide to the Bosnian Serbs' wartime military commander, General Ratko Mladic, was flown to a detention unit at Scheveningen in the Netherlands ahead of a first court appearance that is scheduled - according to ICTY spokesperson Refik Hodzic - for Monday June 4.
The charges of genocide against him refer to his alleged role in the massacre of more than seven thousand Bosnia Muslims at Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995.
It was the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II.
An AP Television crew was on hand at Rotterdam airport to capture exclusively both the moment Tolimir's plane touched down and his transfer from the plane to a waiting convoy of black vehicles.
The exclusive footage also shows him being driven out of the airport, towards a United Nations detention facility on the outskirts of The Hague.
Refik Hodzik, a tribunal spokesperson, confirmed Tolimir's arrival.
Tolimir was considered the third most wanted war crimes suspect still at large in the Balkans after Mladic and Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic.
On Thursday he was arrested as he attempted to cross the Bosnian border from Serbia, in a joint effort by Bosnian and Serbian authorities, and was handed to UN authorities in Banja Luka.
He was later flown to The Hague from Sarajevo following a medical check.
Tolimir, a ranking intelligence and security officer during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, was indicted in 2005 by the UN tribunal with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, extermination, murder, persecution, forcible transfer and deportation, as well as murder in connection with the Srebrenica massacre.
Bosnia's top international official welcomed the arrest and said it was the first time Bosnian Serb police had apprehended a war crimes suspect wanted by the UN tribunal.
For more than a decade, Bosnian Serbs have refused to hunt war crimes suspects who were presumed to be hiding on their territory.
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