Police arrested 10 ethnic Croats in northern Bosnia on Monday accused of committing war crimes against local Serbs during the Balkan country's 1990s inter-ethnic conflict, a Bosnian prosecutor said.
As ex-members of the Bosnian Croat forces, police officials and detention camp guards at the time, they are suspected of crimes against "a significant number of Serb victims", said a statement from the office of the Bosnian prosecutor for war crimes.
The suspects were arrested in the town of Orasje near the border with Croatia, where the alleged crimes were committed between April 1992 and July 1993.
According to associations for Serb victims' families, more than 400 Serbs, both civilians and soldiers, were detained and tortured daily in four detention centres held by Croat forces in the Orasje region.
A number of them were killed, and women were raped there.
A military police official and head of one of the detention camps, Mato Baotic, has been on trial since February before a Sarajevo court. He is charged with rape and the torture of prisoners.
The Bosnian war pitted the country's three main ethnic communities -- Serbs, Muslims and Croats -- against each other and claimed 100,000 lives.
The conflict also displaced about two million people, almost half the country's pre-war population.
