Eight former soldiers fighting with Bosnian Muslim forces were arrested Thursday on charges of murdering Croat civilians and military prisoners during the 1990s inter-ethnic war, authorities said.
The suspects, which include former military commanders, are accused of killing two women and at least a dozen Croat soldiers detained in the Bosnian village of Krizancevo Selo in 1993, the state prosecutor said in a statement.
A quarter century after the war, no one has ever been convicted for the mass killings that took place there, one of the worst atrocities carried out against Bosnian Croats during the conflict.
The village was attacked on December 22, 1993 by the Bosnian Muslim troops, as well as a unit of foreign Islamic volunteer fighters who fought on their side during the 1992-1995 war.
On the same day 34 Croat soldiers and civilian detainees, including women and elderly people, were killed in the village.
Around 30 other detained soldiers were taken to the foreign unit's camp and to the town of Zenica. They were all killed.
"The bodies...had traces of torture and mutilations," according to the prosecutor.
Although Croats and Muslims joined forces to battle Bosnian Serbs during the war, they also fought against each others for 11 months in 1993 and 1994.
The conflict claimed 100,000 lives and displaced millions.
