ANKARA
A Bosnian war criminal sought by Bosnia and Herzegovina was detained Thursday in Turkey’s southern coastal province of Antalya, police officials said.
According to the General Directorate of Security, 64-year-old Dusko Dabetic arrived at a five star hotel in the holiday resort province at the beginning of this week.
He will be deported back to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as he is "wanted by the judicial authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina for prosecution to serve a sentence."
Interpol has released an advisory for his arrest on charges of "war crimes against civilians."
The International Red Cross said that at least 312,000 people, including 200,000 Bosnians, were killed during the Bosnian War, which took place between 1992 and 1995.
A total of 8,400 people still remain missing after the war, according to the Institute for Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Former Serbian Party leader Radovan Karadzic, Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, chief of general staff Ljubisa Beara, head of security Dragan Nikoli and police director Ljubomir Borovcanin were among those found guilty of war crimes committed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 Bosniak men were captured by Serb forces on 13 July, 1995, locked in a warehouse belonging to the Agricultural Cooperative in the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica and killed by troops using automatic weapons and grenades.
About 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were eventually killed after the Bosnian Serb army attacked Srebrenica -- designated a UN "safe area" -- in July, 1995, despite the presence of Dutch troops tasked with acting as UN peacekeepers.
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