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Friday, February 26, 2010

Bosnia detains three Srebrenica genocide suspects

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The remains of thousands of massacre victims have been exhumed over the past years from more than 70 mass graves around the town.

BANJA LUKA - Bosnian police on Friday arrested three Bosnian Serbs suspected of committing genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslims, Bosnian television said. Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Vlastimir Golijanin, 36, Zoran Goronja, 39, and Stanko Savanovic, 42, were arrested upon the Bosnian state prosecution's order in three different Bosnian towns, the television said. The three "are suspected of being direct executors in shootings and killings of Muslim men and boys... and of taking part in the killing of over 1,000 victims" in Srebrenica, the television quoted the prosecution's statement as saying.

Bosnian Serb forces rounded up and massacred an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys after over-running Srebrenica in 1995, the last year of the Bosnian war following the break-up of Yugoslavia. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), both based in The Hague, have labeled the Srebrenica massacre a genocide.

The remains of thousands of massacre victims have been exhumed over the past years from more than 70 mass graves around the town. More than 5,600 victims have been identified by DNA analysis. The trial before the ICTY of the massacre's alleged mastermind, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, was to resume on Monday. Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade in July 2008 after 13 years on the run. His military chief Ratko Mladic, also charged by the ICTY over Srebrenica, is still at large and one of two last fugitives of the 1990s Balkan wars indicted by the UN court.

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