Sarajevo, 4 Nov. (AKI) – A former Bosnian Muslim army deputy commander, Nihad Bojadzic, was arrested in Sarajevo on Wednesday on suspicion of having killed over 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the 1993 Muslim-Croat war, the state prosecutor's office said. Bojadzic was due to be handed over to Bosnia's state war crimes court.

Bojadzic, 47, is suspected of committing the mass killings while serving as deputy commander of the Bosnian Muslim-led army special platoon ’Zulfikar’ when it overran the village of Trusina near the southern town of Konjic in April 1993.

Prosecution spokesman Boris Grubesic told media that 19 of the victims were Croat civilians, three were Croatian soldiers who had surrendered themselves, while four people, including two children, were wounded.

Four more Muslims were arrested on the same charges in September and are in detention pending trial.

The Bosnian state war crimes court was set up in 2005 to try thousands of mid- and low-ranking war crimes suspects from the 1992-95 war whose cases were passed to it by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.