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Four Bosnian Serbs indicted for Srebrenica massacre

22 Dec 2006 17:01:49 GMT
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SARAJEVO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Bosnia's prosecutor's office on Friday indicted four Bosnian Serbs for war crimes committed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, two of whom have been deported from the United States.

Former military policemen Zdravko Bozic and Mladen Blagojevic were deported to Bosnia in June and November for lying to U.S. immigration authorities about their service in the Bosnian Serb military during the 1992-95 war, the office said.

Together with Zeljko Zaric and Zoran Zivanovic, who were arrested in Bosnia this month, they are charged with the detention, murders and forcible transfer of Muslims after Serb forces overran the U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica.

All the accused are in custody, the office said in a statement.

This month, U.S. authorities arrested 26 Bosnian Serbs and accused a number of them of taking part in Europe's worst single atrocity since World War Two.

Some 8,000 Muslims from Srebrenica and surrounding villages were killed in July 1995. The bodies of about half have been found in more than 80 mass graves in the Srebrenica area.

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and military chief Ratko Mladic have been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague over Srebrenica and the 43-month siege of Sarajevo.

Both men are still at large. Karadzic is believed to be hiding in eastern Bosnia or Montenegro and Mladic in Serbia.

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