[JURIST] Bosnian police on Tuesday arrested three men [press release, in Bosnian] suspected of committing war crimes during the 1990s. Sarajevo lawyer Ibro Merkez and Gorazde police commissioner Esef Huric are alleged [Balkan Insight report] to have illegally detained and imprisoned 100 Serbs in the city of Gorazde at the beginning of the war in 1992. Ahmet Sejdic, a former army commander is accused of illegal imprisonment, expulsion, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war. The imprisoned Serbs reportedly faced inhumane conditions that resulted in the death of two individuals. The prosecutor’s office will now decide on next steps.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 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. In April the Bosnian prosecutor’s office indicted [JURIST report] 10 former Bosnian-Serb soldiers for war crimes committed during the Balkan conflict. Also in April 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.