US arrests 26 Bosnian Serbs

The massacre in Srebrenica is considered Europe's

worst war crime since World War Two

December 17, 2006

US authorities have arrested 26 Bosnian Serbs in the past week and accused a number of them of taking part in the 1995 massacre of 8000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

The suspects had allegedly concealed their service in the Bosnian Serb military when they applied for refugee status, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

They were arrested in at least eight US cities, and were charged with visa fraud, perjury or making false statements, the newspaper said on Saturday.The arrests were part of an intensified effort by immigration and customs officials to root out unacknowledged members of the Serb military.


"Only a few of those arrested here are accused by the Justice Department of directly taking part in the Srebrenica killings, but all allegedly were in units that did," the Post said.

Immigration and customs enforcement officials are using data supplied by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, located in The Hague.

US efforts

Julie Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security for ICE, told the Post in a statement that her office "will not allow the United States to be a safe haven for those who failed to disclose their service in military forces that were known to commit atrocities".

The Srebrenica massacre, in the final stages of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, is considered Europe's worst war crime since World War II.

Previous immigration roundups led to the arrests of 24 Bosnian Serbs in Phoenix and Salt Lake City, Utah, in September 2005 and June 2006.

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I came across certain information one day that allegedly certain departments of the American government may have taken part with the forces that committed these massacres.