Drecun wants culprits of war crimes against Serbs identified

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) member of the parliament Milovan Drecun said on Thursday, commenting on the arrest of 8 people suspected of war crimes against Muslims in Srebrenica, that the SNS wanted all the war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia investigated.

"We welcome cooperation between the Serbian war crimes prosecutor and the Bosnian authorities on the said case, but we also regret that we cannot obtain enough information to show that the cooperation is not onesided and that it not solely about arresting Serbs suspected of war crimes," he told reporters at the parliament.

More than 3,260 Serbs were killed in Podrinje from 1992 to 1995 and those crimes have to be investigated and the culprits put on trial, he noted, calling on the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor to identify the culprits.

It is extremely important for reconciliation, the prosperity and future of the region that all war crimes be investigated, he stressed.

EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES AGAINST SERBS SIT IN STORAGE

The War Crimes Detection Agency (SZO) has learned that the storage facility of the Office of the Serbian Prosecutor for War Crimes holds unused evidence of war crimes against the Serbs, Drecun said on Thursday.

According to a SZO memo, this evidence comprises tens of thousands of statements taken from refugees fleeing Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, he told reporters.

These refugees gave the police and court authorities their accounts about what they and others of their people had suffered, and they often provided names of the culprits, Croats and Muslims, Drecun noted.

These statements have been lying in the storage facility of the Office of the Serbian Prosecutor for War Crimes for nearly...