Sarajevo - The prosecutor of the war crimes chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina's state court pressed charges Wednesday against Bosnian-Serb Vaso Todorovic, suspected of genocide during the country's 1992-95 war, the court said in a statement. According to statement, Todorovic, 40, is suspected of being involved in the 1995 massacre in the former eastern Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, in which Bosnian Serb troops massacred up to 8,000 Muslim men after capturing the area on July 11, 1995.
In his capacity as police officer of the Sekovi'i 2nd Detachment (of Bosnian Serb) Special Police Unit during the period from July 10 to 19, 1995, Todorovic is suspected together with others of participating "in the criminal action of extermination of Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) civilians within the UN protected zone of Srebrenica," the statement said.
He consciously participated in expelling and murdering thousands of Bosnian Muslims aimed at exterminating them from the area, the indictment said.
The indictment alleges that Todorovic participated in searching Bosniak houses in villages surrounding Srebrenica in order to expel them and transport them to a detention facility in the nearby Potocari village.
He allegedly also participated in the detention of several thousand Bosniak men, who tried to escape Serb troops running through the woods.
Once they were detained, Todorovic is believed to be among the guards preventing the detainees from escaping on their way to a detention facility in the village of Kravice, where they were later executed.
Todorovic was charged with genocide of the Bosniaks.
Todorovic has been in the court's custody since early April this year.
