SARAJEVO: Bosnian authorities on Friday arrested seven former members of the country’s Serb police force who are suspected of killing Muslim civilians, including women and children, during the 1990s war, prosecutors said.
The former policemen are alleged to have been linked to the murder of 22 people, including seven children and eight women, the prosecutors office said in a statement.
Among the suspects was an individual "who directly executed the victims", the statement said, adding that the arrests were carried out across several towns in Bosnia. The murders occurred in September 1992 in the village of Balatun, near the northeastern town of Bijeljina after the police rounded up 22 Muslim civilians from their homes.
The arrests come just days after police apprehended nine former members of the Bosnian Serb military who are suspected of killing several Muslims and Croats and illegally detaining hundreds of others during the war. Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war between its Croat, Muslim and Serb populations claimed some 100,000 lives. Most of the victims were Muslims.
Police initially blamed the flooding on a burst dam
There has also been infighting over how progressive its pitch should be as it seeks to woo back voters
The government of India has been very clear with us that they are taking this seriously and will investigate
Temperatures in the Philippines are forecast to reach 37 degree Celsius in the next three days
The defence minister also expressed concerns over the Afghan situation
The suspects in one of the largest criminal cases in German history had been held incommunicado until they met in the...