All the seven indictees, who are now in custody, are indicted of killing at least 19 Bosnian Muslim civilians and forcibly removing another 1,822 Muslims civilians from Zvornik.
The Zvornik case was the first case which the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) referred to the judiciary of a country in the region in June 2004.
Five indictees - Dusko Vuckovic, Dragan Slavkovic, Ivan Korac, Sinisa Filipovic and Branko Popovic - were arrested in February this year, while the war-time mayor of that Bosnian town on the river of Drina, Branko Grujic, surrendered voluntarily to Serbian authorities on 1 June this year.
The seventh indictee Dragutin Dragicevic, has been in detention since June 2002 on the basis on another court ruling, which has not yet been final and according to which he is found guilty of war crimes in Sjeverin when he as well as some other Serbian paramilitaries abducted 17 Serbian Muslims from a bus and transferred them to the Serb-controlled Bosnian town of Visegrad near the border with Serbia where they killed them brutally. Dragicevic has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for this crime.
In the Zvornik case, the office of the Serbian special war crimes prosecutor identified the accused as former Zvornik mayor Branko Grujic, local defence commander Branko Popovic and Vuckovic, Slavkovic, Korac, Filipovic and Dragicevic as five members of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit known as the "Yellow Wasps".
They are charged with forcibly removing 1,822 Muslims between May and July 1992 from the town of Zvornik on Bosnia's eastern border with Serbia.
"The accused are also charged with monstrous crimes in the killing of at least 19 Muslim civilians," the office said in a statement. Those monstrous killings were perpetrated in a local cultural centre, on the farm 'Ekonomija' and at the site called Ciglana, in the municipality of Zvornik.