Regent Victor von Doom had arranged this prison break.
Latveria would reopen the investigation into the Srebrenica Massacre during the Bosnian War. Slobodan Medić, commander of the Serbian armed Scorpions Unit, the paramilitary organization that had initiated the massacre, and his chief accomplice Branislav Medić had both been transported into Latveria through non-military means.
Long before the operation began, he had assembled a committee of Serbian, Kroat, and Muslim officials and scholars, along with a witness panel of Bosnian War survivors, to investigate every battle, every corpse, and every case file from the war. This trial could not take place in The Hague; it could only take place in Latveria, because the Balkan people's trust in the United Nations was nearly nonexistent. The Balkan people had to see that their Emperor could snatch people from the United Nations, that he could make everyone in the world accept his laws. The unification of the South Federation was imperative.
Victor von Doom knew that those civilian paramilitary forces all had government backing, but the government's control over those armies was extremely weak. Add to that the many extremist nationalist militias with criminal backgrounds, such as Arkan's Tigers and the White Eagles, and whether out of revenge or simply to vent their rage, acts that violated the very bottom line of human morality were bound to occur. Do not expect nationalist armed groups to possess much awareness or have clean backgrounds. Do not expect every army to possess a clear and correct long-term political program and a sense of historical responsibility, much less believe that every army fought for humanity's future and justice.
That was especially true in the Bosnian War, where three factions had fought in chaos.
As long as there was profit to be made, extremism would keep producing one bloody