SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Eight men arrested on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity during the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995 have been ordered to be detained for 30 days.
The War Crimes Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade said in a written statement Friday that the suspects would remain in jail in order to ensure witnesses in the case were not subject to influence and none of the accused would flee.
The group were arrested in Serbia on Wednesday on suspicion of taking part in the slaughter of more than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims, mainly men and boys, on 13 July, 1995, in an agricultural warehouse in the Serbian town of Srebrenica.
Serb forces locked their victims in the warehouse belonging to the Agricultural Cooperative in the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica and killed them using automatic weapons and grenades in Europe's worst civilian slaughter since World War II.
About 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were eventually killed after the Bosnian Serb army attacked Srebrenica -- designated a UN "safe area" -- in July, 1995, despite the presence of Dutch troops tasked with acting as UN peacekeepers.
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