SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Bosnia's prosecutor has requested the re-arrest of 10 Bosnian Serb war crimes convicts who were released this week because of procedural mistakes.
The prosecutor's office said Wednesday that the men might flee before their appeals cases are reheard, and that the families of their victims are very upset by their release.
Six of the 10 have been convicted of genocide and sentenced to 28 to 33 years for having participated in the killing of more than 1,000 Muslim men during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
The men were released Tuesday because the European human rights court in Strasbourg ruled that Bosnian judges violated their human rights by applying the harsher criminal code adopted in 2003 rather than the code in force when the crimes were committed.
