A former Bosnian Serb general, already serving a decades-long sentence over the Srebrenica genocide, was charged Monday for his role in another massacre of dozens of Bosnian Muslim civilians during the 1990s war.
Radislav Krstic, 77, was charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the September 1992 attack on the village of Novoseoci, in eastern Bosnia.
Following the attack, 44 men were shot dead at a nearby rubbish dump, the Bosnian prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The youngest victim was 14, and the oldest was 77.
The village mosque was destroyed, and its debris dumped over the victims' bodies.
The remains of 43 victims have been exhumed so far, while one is still missing.
Krstic, who commanded a Bosnian Serb army brigade at the time, was charged with planning, committing and covering up the crime, prosecutors said.
Nine Bosnian Serbs are already on trial over the same massacre.
A UN war crimes tribunal in 2004, on appeal, sentenced Krstic to 35 years in jail for the Srebrenica genocide, a term he is currently serving in Estonia.
Bosnian Serb forces captured the ill-fated eastern town on July 11, 1995, in the final stages of Bosnia's inter-ethnic war.
In the following days, they systematically killed almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys, whose bodies were dumped in mass graves.
The atrocity was deemed genocide by two international tribunals.
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war between its Croats, Bosniak Muslims and Serbs claimed nearly 100,000 lives.
