Bosnia Arrests Serb War Suspect Deported from US

Police on Thursday morning arrested former soldier Milan Trisic, who is accused of committing a crime against humanity against Bosniaks in the Bratunac municipality in 1992, at Sarajevo airport after he was deported from the US.

"He is suspected, in his capacity as former member of the Bosnian Serb Army, of having committed a crime against humanity against Bosniak victims, related to the murders, forced disappearances, unlawful detention, torture and abuse, as well as the forced resettlement, of a large number of victims, carried out in the Bratunac area during 1992," the state prosecution said in a statement.

Trisic had been living in the city of Charlotte in the US state of North Carolina.

In March last year, the US authorities jailed him for 18 months for failing to state in his application for a green card that he was part of the Bosnian Serb Army's Bratunac Brigade during the war.

In court in the US, Trisic he admitted that he had engaged in various unlawful activities while serving with the Bratunac Brigade, such as the unlawful detention and beating of Bosniak prisoners.

The US court ruled that he should be deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina after serving his sentence.