Serbia arrests seven over 1995 Srebrenica massacre

[inanna]

Source: Agence France Presse

2 hours ago

Belgrade (AFP) - Serbian police on Wednesday detained seven people suspected of taking part in the execution of around 1,000 people at a warehouse during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the first arrests by Serbian authorities over mass killings during the atrocity.

The seven, identified only by initials, were said to be members of a Bosnian Serb wartime police unit who carried out the killings near Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia on a single day in July 1995.

Around 8,000 Muslim and boys were killed and their bodies dumped in mass graves during the Srebrenica massacre, considered the worst on European soil since World War II.

The detained men are alleged to have "committed war crimes against the civilian population", in particular at the Kravica warehouse, the prosecutor said in a statement.

The prosecution was also searching for several more people believed to be in neighbouring countries, the statement said.

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[pampango]

1. Serbia has been negotiating to join the EU since 2007. Cooperation on the prosecution of war

criminals has been a big issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Serbia_to_the_European_Union#

Thanks for posting this, inanna.