Croatia deports warcrimes suspect to Bosnia

Croatia on Thursday extradited to Bosnia a Slovenian national wanted by Sarajevo over his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, FENA news agency reported.

Franc Kos, 43, is suspected of taking part in the 1995 killing of Srebrenica Muslims as a member of the Bosnian Serb army.

He was detained in Croatia in April.

After capturing Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces summarily executed about 8,000 Muslim men and boys, in the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

The Srebrenica massacre is the only episode in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war to have been ruled as genocide by two international courts, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the UN war crimes tribunal, both based in The Hague.

Earlier Thurday, the UN court sentenced two Bosnian Serb officers, Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara, to life imprisonment over Srebrenica ruling that the men played a leading role in the massacre.

Five other defendants in the case received jail terms of between five and 35 years.