BELGRADE — Serbian police on Wednesday detained seven people suspected of taking part in the execution of about 1,000 Muslims at a warehouse during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst civilian atrocity since Second World War.The seven, identified only by their initials, were said to be members of a Bosnian Serb wartime police unit who carried out the killings near Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia on a single day in July 1995.About 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed and their bodies dumped in mass graves in Srebrenica in the summer of 1995.The detained men are alleged to have "committed war crimes against the civilian population", in particular at the Kravica warehouse, the prosecutor said in a statement. The prosecution was also searching for several more people believed to be in neighbouring countries, the statement said."This is the first case in which our office is dealing with mass killings that were directly part of the Srebrenica massacre," war crime prosecutor’s spoke...
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