District Court of Belgrade issued arrest warrants for 19 former Bosnian officials. As reported by Reuters, referring to the Spokesperson court, these people are suspected of war crimes, namely, the involvement in the 1992 attack on the troops of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), retreating from Sarajevo.
These are the events that took place shortly after the start of the siege of Sarajevo by Serb forces. In May 1992 the JNA military convoy was to get out of the city - an agreement for a corridor was reached during the trilateral talks between the Serbian and the Bosnian parties and the UN.
However, as the representative of the court, the Bosnian Army soldiers attacked a convoy of UN peacekeepers were. The attack killed 42 Yugoslav soldiers and officers, even 73 people were injured and 215 - were taken into captivity.
One of the people, which the Serbian court suspects of involvement in the organization of this attack is Eyup Ganic (Ejup Ganic), who was then a member of the military government of Bosnia. The names of the other suspects are not named.
Ganic, commenting on the charges in his address, said that the attack on the JNA forces were sent to rescue the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic (Alija Izetbegovic), which in that day, was detained for several hours at the airport of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces. "In Serbia, believes that anyone who defended our country (Bosnia) should be arrested," - he said in an interview with the Bosnian newspaper Dnevni Avaz daily.
Reuters said that Ganic lives in Sarajevo. Between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently no agreement on extradition of suspects. At the same time, according to experts, for the issuance of Ganic can be applied the corresponding Council of Europe treaties.
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