BELGRADE, June 1 (Hina) - The wartime mayor of Zvornik, Branko Grujic,who is suspected of involvement in war crimes committed in thiseastern Bosnian municipality in 1992, has turned himself in tojudicial authorities in Serbia, the
Special War Crimes Prosecutor'sOffice in Belgrade said in a statement on Wednesday.
BELGRADE, June 1 (Hina) - The wartime mayor of Zvornik, Branko
Grujic, who is suspected of involvement in war crimes committed in this eastern
Bosnian municipality in 1992, has turned himself in to judicial authorities in
Serbia, the Special War Crimes Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade said in a
statement on Wednesday. Grujic is one of the ten persons suspected
of war crimes in Zvornik in 1992 who are being investigated by Serbia as part
of a case that has been transferred from the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
Apart from Grujic, six more suspects, former members of the Zvornik
Territorial Defence, are already in custody. They are allegedly responsible for
the killing of at least 15 civilians in Calopek and the deportation of 1,822
civilians from the village of Kozluk to Hungary in 1992.