A human rights
group today hailed the Bosnian-Serb authorities' first arrest of Serbs suspected of war crimes committed during the country's 1992-95 war.
Police from the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska (RS) arrested five former Bosnian Serb policemen who were charged over the murder of a Catholic priest and his parents.
The charges were brought by the district prosecutor's office in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of the Bosnian-Serb half of Bosnia.
The RS Helsinki Committee for Human Rights declared its support for the decision to investigate suspects for the murder of Father Tomislav Matanovic and his parents.
The five - identified as Ranko Jakovljevic, Mile Rodic, Miroslav Cadjo, Drazen Rakovic and Rade Savic - are suspected of killing Matanovic and his parents in September 1995, just months before the end of the war.
AFP