Serbia seek extradition of commander

Serbia seeks extradition of Bosnian wartime commander,

 

Serbia has formally requested the extradition of a wartime Muslim Bosniak commander whose arrest this month in Switzerland threatens to overshadow the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

During the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Naser Oric was the Bosnian commander of the Srebrenica region, a designated U.N. "safe haven" that fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.

More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred in the days that followed, marking the worst mass killing on European soil since World War Two.

In 2008, Oric was acquitted by a U.N. court of war crimes against Bosnian Serb civilians, but was arrested in Switzerland on June 10 on the basis of a Serbian warrant issued in February 2014.

Muslims Bosniaks regard him as a hero, and his arrest may yet derail plans by Serbian Prime 

Minister Aleksandar Vucic to attend the Srebrenica commemorations in Bosnia on July 11.

• Bosnian Muslim Naser Oric sits in the courtroom 
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