NATO-led peacekeepers arrested a Bosnian Serb army commander lastnight who had been indicted by a UN war crimes tribunal for alleged involvement in the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.
Mr Dragan Obrenovic, who was commander of a Bosnian Serb army brigade at the time, was under sealed indictment, meaning the charges against him had not been made public to avoid alerting him to his possible arrest.
Ms Florence Hartman, spokeswoman for the tribunal prosecutors' office, said Mr Obrenovic had been arrested by the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) near Zvornik, in Bosnia's Serb republic near the border with Yugoslavia.
He is expected to be brought before the court in The Hague in the next few days.
He was charged with complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity and violations against the laws and customs of war, said Ms Hartman. The indictment was issued on April 9th.
Mr Obrenovic was allegedly involved in the killing of thousands of Muslims in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. The Srebrenica massacre is regarded as Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.