Several former Bosnian Muslim political and military leaders were charged Wednesday over their role in the killing of retreating Yugoslav army soldiers at the start of Bosnia's 1990s war.
Sarajevo prosecutors charged 10 people over their involvement in the 1992 attack on a retreating Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) convoy, escorted by the United Nations peacekeepers, in the capital's centre.
The suspects include Ejup Ganic, a Muslim wartime member of Bosnia's presidency, two former interior ministers and several Bosnian army retired generals.
Eight soldiers, JNA civilian employees and members of military medical staff were killed and 24 wounded in the attack, according to the indictment.
The attack on May 3, 1992, in Dobrovoljacka street, occurred the day after a spate of violent shelling of central Sarajevo by JNA artillery and Bosnian Serb forces.
It was two months after Bosnia voted for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.
Ganic and the others are suspected of having "planned, attacked and incited (others to attack) the undefended convoy ... escorted by the UN peace forces" as well as having failed to prevent the killings and punish the perpetrators, the prosecutors said.
In 2012, the same prosecutors suspended a probe against Ganic and 13 other former Muslim wartime leaders over the alleged crime.
Bosnia's inter-ethnic war claimed nearly 100,000 lives including more than 11,500 people killed during the Sarajevo siege.
