SARAJEVO (Reuters) -
Bosnia will reinvestigate a plane crash that killed Macedonian President
Boris Trajkovski in 2004 because of new evidence in the case, a
government official said on Friday, after Macedonian media said there
were suspicions he had been assassinated.
Trajkovski and
eight others were killed in the crash, which happened on the approach to
an airport near the Bosnian town of Mostar. At the time, Bosnian
investigators said pilot error was to blame.
Trajkovski is
remembered as the man who brought peace to Macedonia when it was on the
brink of an ethnic war in 2001. He and his entourage had been flying to
Mostar for an economic conference.
Some local media had quoted a
lawyer for Trajkovski's family as saying the plane had been brought down
by a missile, an allegation for which the family had not previously
been able to provide evidence.
Other reports questioned the role
of SFOR, the NATO peacekeeping force which was in control of Mostar
airport at the time, saying it had concealed evidence.
Omer
Kulic, an official at Bosnia's Transport Ministry, said the ministry has
decided to form an investigative commission by the end of the year to
study new evidence that had been unearthed by Macedonian investigators.
"They
have come to some new findings and facts that shed new light on the
accident and we want to clarify them," Kulic told Reuters. "We have
concluded that there are enough elements to start a new investigation."
He declined to speculate on the nature of the new evidence.
Experts
from the United States, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia
would join the new investigative team, Kulic said.
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