⁍ Bosnian police on Tuesday detained two Serb ex-soldiers accused of taking part in the murder of at least 78 Bosniak civilians early in the Bosnian war of the 1990s.

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⁍ Un ⁇ anin Bo ⁇ ko, 51, and Despot Dragan, 56, are accused of violating the provisions of the Geneva conventions on the protection of civilians during wartime and of crimes against humanity.

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⁍ Bosnian war was marked by the persecution and killing of Croats and Bosniaks from territories the Bosnian Serbs had mapped out for their exclusively Serb state.

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– Twenty-five years after the end of the Bosnian war, Bosnian police have arrested two former Serb soldiers accused of taking part in the murder of at least 78 Bosniak civilians. Un ⁇ anin Bo ⁇ ko, 51, and Despot Dragan, 56, are accused of driving the civilians out of a school in the village of Velagici, lining them up, and firing at them from automatic rifles, Reuters reports. The victims’ bodies were transported by trucks and buried in a mass grave from which they were exhumed in 1996. The two men were arrested yesterday in the northwestern city of Banja Luka. They are accused of violating the Geneva conventions on the protection of civilians during wartime and of crimes against humanity. They were detained in the northwestern city of Banja Luka. The two former Bosnian Serb army soldiers are suspected of driving the Bosniak civilians out of a school in the western village of Velagici in which they were detained, lining them up, and, firing from automatic rifles with other soldiers, killing at least 78, the statement said. The victims’ bodies were transported by trucks and buried in a mass grave from which they were exhumed in 1996. The 1992-1995 Bosnian war was marked by the persecution and killing of Croats and Bosniaks from territories the Bosnian Serbs had mapped out for their exclusively Serb state. The Croat and Bosniak-dominated armies also committed crimes in the war in which all three parties fought each other at different times.