Bosnia charges eight Serbs with killing 78 Muslim civilians

A quarter of a century after the Dayton Agreement, which ended the war between Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks, in which about 100,000 people were killed, Sarajevo is still following suspected war criminals, Reuters writes, broadcast the Express newspaper.

The defendants in this case are charged with persecution of the Bosniak civilian population, based on ethnic, national and religious affiliations aimed at discrimination and murder of civilians in opposition to international law, the Bosnian court's announcement reported.

According to prosecutors, eight former Serb soldiers had removed Bosniak civilians from a school in the village of Velagici, listed and shot them dead at least 78 people in June 1992.

The bodies of the victims had been transported in trucks and buried in a mass cemetery, from which they had been unearthed in 1996.

Still no comment has been made by the defendants, some of whom are believed to be in Serbia.

The Bosnian war, held between 1992-1995, was marked by the persecution and murder of Croats and Bosniaks in territories that Bosnian Serbs had targeted for their state.