Bosnia indicts eight Serbs for wartime killing of 78 civilians


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  • Friday, 21 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the Memorial Center in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina July 6, 2020. Picture taken with a drone July 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's top court on Friday indicted eight Serb ex-soldiers for crimes against humanity over their alleged role in the murder of at least 78 Bosnian Muslim civilians early in the Bosnian war of the 1990s.

A quarter of a century after the U.S.-sponsored Dayton peace accords ended the war among Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks in which about 100,000 people were killed, Sarajevo is still hunting down suspected war criminals.

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