You got it wrong!

The brothers Vuckovic travelled throughout the world. Their ticket to the Hague and back was the fact that they are twins. SFOR members made, at least for now, their biggest mistake in the search for suspected war criminals. Czech soldiers played at being specialists a little; and because they knew that there were twins among those suspected of war crimes, they arrested the first pair they found. That these were named Milan and Miroslav Vuckovic, not Pedrag and Nenad Banovic, wasn’t too important. Aside from the fact that they played specialists, the Czechs evidently remembered that hubcaps were sold on the Adriatic for two additional days on the coast, so they decided that the Brothers Vuckovic would pay for a part of that. That’s how they were legally beaten on the trip to the Hague such that one of them even confessed that he was Banovic.
That fateful day, the Brothers Vuckovic had left around ten o’clock in the evening for their traditional evening outing to the restaurant “Lotos”, a raft on the Sava River. “Coming closer to the raft, we saw two SFOR jeeps that we didn’t even pay attention to until armed soldiers began pouring out of the cars running toward us, screaming,” said the Vuckovic twins six days after their visit to the tribunal.

Twenty soldiers jumped from the jeeps with full war gear. The Czechs played a little at being ninjas--one of them jumped and hit Miroslav Vuckovic in the back with his leg, knocking him on the ground. His brother Milan “kissed” the ground after him.

VIOLENTLY FOOLING AROUND: Tracks of SFOR’s “overzealous work” were very evident even a few days after the return to Prijedor. According to the Vuckovic brothers’ witnesses, slapping, slamming heads on the car, and kicking continued even after they were secured. They forced Miroslav Vuckovic to sign some kind of confession. From the base in Ramic, they were taken to Tuzla and from there to the Hague. At least there they were able to catch their breath.

SFOR’s representatives said to the press that the brothers fooled around rather well. They claim that it didn’t even occur to them. In the style of an American film, the judge read them their rights. From “violently fooling around”, the first question they asked the judge was whether or not they’d be beaten in the Hague. As the judge told them, in the Hague no one was even thinking about it. In that time, the Hague finished the brothers’ identification check. After the mistake was established, both were returned to Prijedor per urgent procedure. They were accompanied by a pack of statements. Carlos Vestendorp explained that it was human error. The brothers might be able to pay back the beatings, because lawyers are coming forward who are offering to sue SFOR for a large settlement. Fila law firm, the famous “institute for the defense of the weak” from Belgrade, won. Even SFOR offered a solution. Two years employment in their services should be able to compensate the brothers Vuckovic for all damages suffered. For the moment the idea is very strange—because they could probably get more in court and continue to lay at home than by working for it.

The most satisfied party in all this is the true SFOR target--the brothers Pedrag and Nenad Banoic, who have almost 50 counts against them.  After the arrest of the Vuckovic’s , their father “joked” with all ranks. He told journalists that his sons were in England, Serbia, and Holland.  In the end, he said that he didn’t know where they were at all. Yet, he doesn’t have any reason to be in a good mood because if they arrest all the twins in Republic Srpska, his might be among them. No one can expect protection from the government of RS, but after these trifles they lodged such a “sharp” protest that representatives of the international community are most probably sitting with egg on their face.
Prijedor is already acclimated to these matters because there was no kind of reaction on the day of the arrest, "who are you asking for? The arrested ones? I don’t care,” were the most common reactions of people even though they sought money from journalists for usually inaccurate information as to where the Brothers Vuckovic lived. Media attention obviously pleases these people because they gladly agree to an interview, but they don’t have much to say about it. In general they remember the beating and driving by the newest BMW. They say that in the Hague they saw all the “prisoners”, but didn’t contact any of them. Because the mistake had already been ascertained, they rested in Shveningen’s laundery after a doctor’s examination.

Now they enjoy fame, and they are resting due to “fear suffered” which doesn’t permit them to go to work.

One more official organ is worried about them in Prijedor and they are in the SDS camp, because they have a trump card for an attack against  the “odious occupiers” and “local traitors” who tolerate everything! The president of the Prijedor township lodged a protest because the brothers didn’t go for identification to Prijedor’s MUP rather to the Hague which sought evidence of their identification from the police in Sanski Most which the brothers fled after the war.

They will be gathering war criminals in these parts for some time to come, but SFOR surely won’t stop after this attempt. They have even demonstrated by these moves that they can do anything they want, without fearing the consequences because, “everything is encompassed in their mandate,” which they take out according to need. In the moment when they needed a mandate for searching and arresting criminals, they didn’t have it--except if they came across someone accidentally. Now when they begin to hunt and arrest the wrong savage, even a legal beating is encompassed in their mandate.