Three more Bosnian Serbs arrested for crimes against humanity
Three Bosnian Serbs were arrested last week accused of crimes against humanity committed in 1992. Veljko Basic, 82, Predrag Bastah, 55, and Goran Viskovic, 54, are being questioned by Bosnian authorities regarding crimes committed in Susica camp in the town of Vlasenica in northeastern Bosnia.
Some 8,000 local civilians, mostly Muslims, were held in the prison camp between May and October 1992. The camp’s commander, Dragan Nikolic, was arrested in 2000, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 23 years’ prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The verdict said he enjoyed watching his Muslim prisoners raped, tortured and murdered.
Despite an intense search, indicted Bosnian Serb ‘masterminds’ Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić remain at large. Mladić is believed to be hiding in Serbia. Karadžić is thought to have left.
