Two Bosnian Serb cousins have been indicted for war crimes in connection with a 1992 campaign in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad in which Muslims were herded into houses and burned alive, the court said Wednesday.
Milan Lukic, 33, and Sredoje Lukic, 39, were originally on the secret list of inductees while the charges against a co-accused, Bosnian Serb Mitar Vasiljevic, was made public after his arrest by NATO forces in Bosnia in January.
Judge Richard May of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ordered that the names of the co-inductees be name public to try to boost efforts to secure the two Bosnian Serbs' arrest.
"All efforts to secure the arrest of these two individuals have been unsuccessful," said Jim Landale, spokesman for the ICTY.
According to charges published October 21, 1998, the three men "willfully killed a significant number of Bosnian Muslim civilians including, women, children and the elderly" in the eastern town of Visegrad between May 1992 and October 1994.
The three are accused with burning alive 135 civilians, including women and children, in June 1992.
The victims had their possessions taken and were herded into two houses before the men set fire to them.
Vasiljevic, 45, who is being held by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In all, 71 war crimes suspects have been indicted by the ICTY -- THE HAGUE (AFP)
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