[JURIST] The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] on Wednesday indicted [press release] 10 former Bosnian-Serb soldiers for war crimes committed during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. The men are accused of imprisoning, torturing and killing 20 people abducted from a train in eastern Bosnia in February of 1993. Cooperation between the Prosecutor’s Offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia have made it possible to prosecute war crimes committed over 20 years ago. In March the Serbian war crimes prosecutors charged five people [JURIST report] for crimes arising out of the same event. The Bosnian prosecutors included 100 pieces of evidentiary material with the indictment, which will be forwarded to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] and the Balkan States continue to prosecute those accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity that left more than 100,000 people dead and millions displaced during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. Earlier this month Bosnian prosecutors indicted three men [JURIST report] for crimes committed against more than 300 Serb civilians between April 1992 and July 1993. In February the International Court of Justice ruled [JURIST report] that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against one another’s citizens during the 1990s war. In January the war crimes division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed [JURIST report] the indictment of Dragomir Vasic on charges of genocide. The charges stemmed from the executions of Srebrenica Muslims during the Bosnian Civil War.