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Serbia police arrest war crimes suspect

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] Serbian police arrested alleged war criminal Darko Jankovic on Sunday. Jankovic is accused of killing at least 19 civilians in eastern Bosnia during the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war. A spokesperson for Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor indicated that Jankovic is potentially associated with the killing of Muslim civilians near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik in 1992. The Serbian war crimes prosecutor indicted two other alleged war criminals in August 2008 in connection with the killing of 700 Muslim civilians near Zvornik. Jankovic's arrest comes one month after a report detailing Serbia's cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was presented to the UN Security Council. Serbia's bid for European Union membership is based on cooperation with the ICTY, including the arrest of two remaining fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic. Mladic faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for overseeing the Srebrenica prison massacre and other killings of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, while Hadzic faces crimes against humanity charges for killings of non-Serbs and for abuses in Croatian prison camps. Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Serge Brammertz indicated in September 2008 that he was "cautiously optimistic" that the two men will be be brought to justice.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).