Bosnian Serb Arrested Over Srebrenica Massacre

Ivanovic was handed over to the Bosnian war crimes prosecutor`s office which had ordered his arrest.

Bosnian police arrested a Bosnian Serb suspected of taking part in genocide against Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst massacre since World War Two, officials said on Wednesday.

The State Protection and Investigation Agency (SIPA) arrested Zeljko Ivanovic in Pale, the seat of the Bosnian Serb wartime president, the state prosecutor said in a statement.

Ivanovic was handed over to the Bosnian war crimes prosecutor's office which had ordered his arrest.

Bosnian Serb forces, commanded by General Ratko Mladic, slaughtered about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys after the town, which was a United Nations protected safe zone, fell into their hands in 1995.

Most were killed while trying to escape through woods, either shot down immediately or arrested and brought to warehouses or schools from where they were taken to places of execution before being buried in mass graves.

The Hague-based international war crimes court has sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs for the Srebrenica massacre. Nine more are on trial, and Mladic, seen as the mastermind of the massacre, is still on the run 14 years after he was indicted.

In Bosnia, 26 Bosnian Serbs have been put on trial over Srebrenica. Eleven have been jailed, seven acquitted and eight are still being tried.