BiH Charges 25 Muslim Wartime Officers, 4 Serbs With War Crimes

Bosnian authorities have charged 25 Muslim wartime officials and four Bosnian Serb officers with committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the country's bloody 1990s conflict.

Prosecutors in Sarajevo said on December 29 that 11 former Muslim members of the Bosnian Army were charged with taking part in an attack against the Serb village of Cemerno in the region of Ilijas, north of Sarajevo, in which 30 people were killed.

In another case, 14 former Muslim police and military officials were indicted for war crimes allegedly committed against dozens of Serbs in the southern region of Konjic, the Sarajevo state prosecutor's office said.

Ten of the indicted men are already in detention, it said.

Their crimes allegedly included the "murder of several dozen Serb civilians, both men and women of different age, torture, robbery and persecution...