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Authorities in Sarajevo have filed war crimes indictments against several former Bosnian politicians and military leaders for their role in the killing of Yugoslav soldiers at the start of the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
Prosecutors in Sarajevo have indicted ten people for involvement in the 1992 attack, when part of the Yugoslav People’s Army forces was withdrawing from Sarajevo, and was accompanied by United Nations peacekeepers.
Among the suspects are Ejup Ganic, a former Bosniak member of the wartime Bosnian Presidency, two former interior ministers and some retired Bosnian Army generals.
Eight Yugoslav Army soldiers, civilian workers and members of the military medical staff were killed and 24 others were injured in the attack, the indictment said.
The May 3, 1992 attack on Dobrovolacka Street came a day after numerous shellings in central Sarajevo, shelling carried out by the Yugoslav Army and Bosnian Serb forces.
The attack came two months after Bosnia, through a referendum, voted for independence from Yugoslavia.
Ganic and the other accused are suspected of having “planned, attacked and incited others to attack the defenseless convoy… that was accompanied by the UN peacekeeping force“, And have also failed to prevent killings and punish perpetrators, prosecutors said.
In 2012, prosecutors suspended an investigation into Ganic and 13 former Bosniak war leaders suspected of war crimes.
The war in Bosnia has left almost 100,000 people dead and over 11,500 killed during the siege of Sarajevo.
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