NATO peacekeepers have arrested a former Bosnian Serb official charged with ordering the killing of more than 60 Muslims and burning down their village at the start of the Bosnian war.
Miroslav Deronjic was seized near the town of Bratunac in eastern Bosnia and will be flown to The Hague to face a United Nations trial for crimes against humanity, the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) said in a statement.
Deronjic is charged with an attack on Glogova near Bratunac in 1992, just miles from the former UN "safe area" of Srebrenica where Bosnian Serb forces killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995.
SFOR said Deronjic gave an order to attack and burn the almost exclusively Muslim village, when he was president of a crisis committee that commanded the area's reserve militia.
On May 9th, 1992, army and militia units surrounded, shelled and stormed the village, facing no resistance because the residents had previously been disarmed, SFOR said.
With Deronjic present they then set fire to Muslim houses, buildings and a mosque, executed about 60 civilians and drove many others from their homes, the statement said. The Muslim part of the village was razed to the ground.
Peacekeepers in Bosnia have arrested more than 20 war crimes fugitives since the end of the 1992-5 Bosnian war. Others have been arrested elsewhere or have handed themselves in, up to a total of 81.
About 20 more remain at large, including the two most wanted - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic.