Atif Dudakovic, a retired general of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and former commander of its Fifth Corps that defended the western Bosnian town of Bihac, was arrested in Bihac on Friday on suspicion of war crimes, police sources confirmed.

Dudakovic is suspected of being responsible for war crimes committed against Bosnian Serbs in the period from 1992 to 1995.

At the same time, Ibrahim Nadarevic, a former Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina officer who also served as War Veterans Minister in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity government from 2003 to 2006, was arrested in Bosnia’s capital of Sarajevo.

During the 1992-95 war, Nadarevic was a brigade commander in the Fifth Corps, and currently serves as advisor to the deputy speaker of the national parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Peoples.

A dozen other persons were arrested as part of this police operation, and Bosnian state prosecutors, who are in charge of the investigation, are expected to confirm details of the arrests later on Friday.

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