Bosnia Arrests Four Croats for Warcrimes against Serbs

Four Bosnian Croats, including a woman, were arrested on Wednesday accused of committing war crimes against Serb civilians at the start of the 1992-1995 war, justice officials said.

The former members of paramilitary forces are suspected of committing war crimes against Serb civilians in a detention camp in May 1992, shortly after the start of the war, the Bosnian war crimes prosecutor's office said.

The prisoners in the camp in the southern Bosnian town of Dretelj were "tortured, beaten, raped and persecuted in an extremely humiliating way," it said in a statement, adding that some had died and others were still missing.

At the time the suspects, now aged between 44 to 59, were either top camp officials, guards or members of a Bosnian Croat militia.

Top officials accused over atrocities committed during the Bosnian war, which killed about 100,000 people, are tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), while local courts handle smaller cases.