SDA condemns Wednesday arrest of Bosnian wartime general – N1

The SDA Wednesday condemned the arrest of former Bosniak General Ramiz Drekovic for allegedly ordering the shelling of a Serb town in 1995.

The former Fourth Corps commander of the Bosnian Army has allegedly ordered artillery units to shell the Bosnian Serb majority town in 1995, and with that breached the Geneva Convention on Protection of Civilians, the Prosecutor’s Office said.

Apart from allegedly causing the death of a 15-year-old, the shelling severely injured several persons and children, prosecutors said.

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