[JURIST] The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] on Thursday indicted [press release] three people for war crimes committed against Serb victims. The indicted, Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasharevic and Sead Velagic, are accused of committing crimes against humanity against more than 300 Serb civilians between April 1992 and July 1993. The indictment charged the men with torturing and detaining civilians in inhumane conditions and killing 16 people of Serb ethnicity while they were members of the Croatian Defense Council Military Police in Livno. The prosecutors included 120 pieces of evidence to support 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. In February Serbian war crimes prosecutors charged [JURIST report] five people with committing a wartime massacre during the Balkan conflict. Also 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.