The United Nations has indicted a former Bosnian Serb commander for complicity in genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim males, The Hague tribunal said today.
Mr Ljubomir Borovcanin (42) was involved in numerous opportunistic killings after Serb forces captured men and boys from the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica, according to the indictment issued in early September but only just released.
Prosecutors say Mr Borovcanin reported to Mr Radislav Krstic, the former Bosnian Serb general convicted last year for genocide in Srebrenica and sentenced to 46 years jail in a landmark ruling by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
Mr Borovcanin participated in a "joint criminal enterprise" to drive Muslim women and children from the Srebrenica enclave in Bosnia and then to capture, detain, summarily execute, bury and rebury Muslim men and boys from the enclave in mid-July 1995, prosecutors say. The indictment was issued under seal on September 6th, but a judge ordered it to be unsealed last Friday, the tribunal said.
It contains one count of complicity in genocide, four counts of crimes against humanity for extermination, murder, persecution and inhumane acts, and one count of violation of the laws or customs of war for murder.
"The joint criminal enterprise, in which Ljubomir Borovcanin was a member and participant, was conceived and designed by General Ratko Mladic and others," the indictment says.
Former Bosnian Serb commander Mladic and Bosnian Serb wartime leader Mr Radovan Karadzic are also wanted for genocide for Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. They remain at large and are the tribunal's most wanted men.
