The Office of the State Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed on Tuesday that Israeli authorities, acting on the request of Bosnian authorities, had arrested Aleksandar Cvetkovic, a wartime member of the Bosnian Serb army suspected of involvement in the 1995 genocide against Bosniaks in the eastern town of Srebrenica, adding that the authorities in Tel Aviv had already been forwarded a request for his extradition, including the necessary documentation.
During the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, Cvetkovic was a member of the Serb army's 10th Commando Unit whose members killed at least 1,000 Bosniak men and boys who were imprisoned on the Branjevo farm near Bratunac after Srebrenica fell into the hands of Serb forces.
Investigating the crime, Bosnian prosecutors established that Cvetkovic had been involved in the crime and that he was hiding in Israel, after which a request was issued for his arrest and extradition.
The Bosnian prosecution has so far indicted for this crime several former members of the Serb army's 10th Commando Unit, including Franc Kos, a Slovenian citizen who was arrested in Croatia in the summer of 2010 on a Bosnian warrant and handed over to Bosnian authorities.
The Office of the State Prosecutor confirmed on Tuesday that 40-year-old Bozidar Kuvelja was arrested earlier in the day in the eastern town of Cajnice on charges of involvement in the Srebrenica massacre.
During the war Kuvelja was a member of Bosnian Serb special police forces that were also involved in the killings of captured Bosniaks.
