A member of the Bosnian Serb government's commission investigating war events in Srebrenica, Smail Cekic, said in an interview with "Oslobodjenje" daily that the 28,000 persons believed to have been involved in war crimes included those who issued orders and direct perpetrators of the mass killings.
"Among the 28,000 persons identified by the working group of the commission for Srebrenica, there are 892 persons who are employed with bodies of authority of Republika Srpska and Bosnia-Herzegovina," Cekic said.
The Bosnian Serb government set up the commission for Srebrenica a year and a half ago at the insistence of the international community and last year the commission established for the first time the fact that forces under Ratko Mladic's command had killed 8,000 Srebrenica Muslims in July 1995.
The commission was then instructed to establish who was involved in the operations and war crimes that were committed.
A list with the names of the 892 persons mentioned by Cekic was submitted last week to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina and according to an information leak, it includes a large number of people who still work in the police, army, and security and other government services.
The list reportedly contains the names of some senior officials of the Agency for Investigations and Protection (SIPA) and the Intelligence-Security Service (OSA) of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Dnevni Avaz daily of Monday reports that most persons mentioned in the last report of the Srebrenica commission have already been informed of that fact by Bosnian Serb government members and that many of them are now trying to flee to Serbia.