Bosnia Arrests Two Serb Soldiers for Cajnice Killings

Steva and Milosav Jovanovic, who were arrested on Thursday, are charged with killing a Bosniak woman who was more than 80 years old, and then burning her house in the village of Medosevici in the Cajnice municipality on June 4, 1992.

Milosav Jovanovic is also suspected of participating in the killing of five Bosniak civilians including two children at the beginning of June 1992.

Jovanic and two other men found six Bosniaks, with the children among them, in a stable in the village, and ordered them out, the prosecution said.

“They separated the two children, who were nine and 11 years old, from the others, and locked them in the house. They ordered the other civilians to line up. One of them managed to escape, after which the defendants killed three civilians,” the Bosnian prosecution said.

After that, the fighters returned to the house, killed the children and set the building on fire, it added.

Both men are former members of the 3th Podrinje light infantry brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army. It is not known if they are related.