Israel launched extradition proceedings on Tuesday against an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia whom Bosnia wants to try for alleged involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Reuters cited Israel's Justice Ministry as saying.
It said Aleksander Cvetkovic, who moved to Israel with his Jewish wife and their children in 2006, was accused of helping Bosnian Serb forces gun down about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.
Having arrested the 42-year-old Cvetkovic on Tuesday, Israeli prosecutors are seeking court approval to extradite him to Bosnia for prosecution on genocide charges, Reuters said, citing a Justice Ministry official that it could be a lengthy process.
"If extradition is approved, we expect that he will wage exhaustive appeals," Reuters cited the ministry official as saying
Reuters also said that it was not clear how Cvetkovic would would respond to allegations that he was part of an eight-man firing squad in Srebrenica, which had been a UN -protected zone until it fell to the Serbs.
The news agency also recalled that the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague had sentenced several Bosnian Serbs for the Srebrenica massacre, which took place at the peak of the 1992-95 civil war that claimed 100,000 lives..
The media in Bosnia reported on Monday evening that Bozidar Kuvelja, suspected of taking part in the Srebrenica massacre, was arrested in the central Bosnian region of Cajnice on Monday evening.
