Saturday, September 1, 2007

THREE SERBIANS LIVING IN BOSNIA ARRESTED UNDER SUSPICION OF WAR CRIMES

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (September 1,2007) - The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) confirmed in Sarajevo it arrested three Serbians living in Bosnia during this week.They are suspected of war crimes comitted in the Bosnian village of Kalinovik, some 20 kilometres south-east of the Bosnian capitol Sarajevo.

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency said it detained on Tuesday Nedjo Zeljaja, 60, and Djordjislav Askraba, 56, both suspected of war crimes against the Bosnian population of Kalinovik in the early stages of the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

Nedjo Zeljaja was wartime commander of a Serbian aggressor's police unit, while Askraba was warden of a detention facility in the village, through which more than 1,000 Bosnian civilians passed and where more than 260 were murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor.

Ratko Bundalo, 63,a former member of the Serbian aggressor's forces, was the third suspect arrested in connection with atrocities committed in the area of the village of Kalinovik in 1992,SIPA said in a statement.

The action was ordered by the Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office.

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