Police arrest Srebrenica massacre suspect

Officials in Sarajevo say police have arrested a former Bosnian Serb soldier suspected of having taken part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Officials in Sarajevo say police have arrested a former Bosnian Serb soldier suspected of having taken part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The State Prosecutor's Office in Sarajevo says in a statement that Zeljko Ivankovic is a genocide suspect and was arrested Wednesday. He has been handed over to the Prosecutor's Office. Local media quoted witnesses as saying that Ivankovic was arrested in Pale, near Sarajevo.

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In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the U.N. safe haven of Srebrenica and executed up to 8,000 Muslim men. The massacre was the worst in Europe since World War II.