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Bosnia Arrests 13 Serbs over War Crimes

Thirteen Bosnian Serbs, including former top police officials, were arrested on Monday on charges of involvement in the killing of Croats and Muslims at the start of the country's 1992-95 war.

The men were arrested in the northern towns of Doboj and Teslic where the killings allegedly took place, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.

They are also suspected of having persecuted, forcibly displaced and detained hundreds of people in the area at the start of the war in 1992.

The case was forwarded to the prosecutor's office by the U.N. court set up to investigate war crimes during the conflict.

The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) handles cases involving top war crimes suspects while local courts handle other cases.

Some 100,000 people were killed during the Bosnian war.

Source: Agence France Presse


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