HONG KONG detectives are being sought to join an international team investigating allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.
Organised by the United Nations, it will be the most comprehensive war crimes investigation since the Nuremburg Trials after World War II.
Last week, a memorandum was circulated to local officers offering them a one-year attachment to the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, which is based at the Hague in the Netherlands.
It specifies candidates must have at least 10 years' detective experience, extensive knowledge of working with a legal team, and be able to stand up to tough cross-examination in court.
Christean Chartier, spokesman for the tribunal, told the Sunday Morning Post there would be about 70 people working in the prosecution office under prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
The team will be divided evenly between investigators and lawyers and will work together on cases, which will he heard in a specially-constructed court room.
''The role of the investigators will be to gather evidence to establish the fact that the suspects are guilty beyond any reasonable doubt,'' Mr Chartier said.