Bosnian police said Thursday that two Serbian men were arrested for their involvement in the Srebrenica massacre that left thousands of people dead during the mid-1990s.
The men, former Bosnian Serb military commander Ostoja Stanisic and deputy Marko Milosevic, were arrested on Thursday for their involvement in the killing of 1,000 of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
“The two are subject of an investigation. Stanisic, the former commander of the 6th battalion of the Bosnian Serb army Zvornik brigade and Milosevic, his deputy, are suspected of committing criminal acts of genocide,” the prosecutor’s office said, according to Reuters.
The Muslim men and boys were executed after Serb forces took over Srebrenica in what was described as the worst single massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.
A week ago, a Bosnian court jailed four soldiers over the massacre. An elite soldier, Stanko Kojic, was convicted of crimes against humanity and received a stiff 43-year sentence, AFP reported.
Bosnian judge Mira Smajlovic said, “The panel of judges has established that the accused committed a crime against humanity,” describing how members of Kojic’s brigade “took breaks twice, to eat and drink beers amid the bodies,” AFP reported.
