BiH Charges Four Serbs With War Crimes

Prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina says they have charged a Bosnian Serb mayor and three other former police officers with war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.

The Prosecutor-General's Office said on December 6 that the four were indicted over the murder and disappearance of at least 22 Bosnian Muslims in the Vlasenica area in eastern Bosnia in 1992 and 1993.

Miroslav Kraljevic, the mayor of the Vlasenica municipality, and the three other suspects are also accused of "unlawful detention, torture, and abuse of several dozen people in several detention facilities," a statement said.

"In spring 1993, almost all the Muslim population from this region was expelled," it said.

Reports said Kraljevic previously served as a lawmaker in Bosnia's Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, as a member of the nationalist Alliance...