Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's...

Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's most notorious prison camps, was arrested by British troops and flown to The Hague to face trial. Sikirica was indicted by the war crimes tribunal in July 1995 for genocide and crimes against humanity for presiding over the massacre of Muslims and Croats at the Keraterm camp in Prijedor. Keraterm ranks alongside Omarska, Trnopolje and Srebrenica as one of the most gruesome massacre sites of the Bosnian war. According to the indictment against Sikirica, more than 3,000 prisoners were held in the abandoned ceramics factory, where they were 'killed, sexually assaulted, tortured, beaten and otherwise subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment'. In one incident in July 1992, the guards herded 140 inmates into a factory warehouse and mowed them down with machine guns. When they discovered that a few prisoners had somehow survived the massacre and escaped, they selected 20 other prisoners and executed them on the spot, the indictment said. Twelve camp guards and officials were charged with war crimes alongside Sikirica. Three of them have been arrested. Sikirica was charged with genocide for his role as camp commander. Since 1997, 21 war crimes suspects have been taken to The Hague for trial. Sikirica was one of the most senior Serb officers from the camps to be arrested as Nato troops started to focus on the higher ranks of the Bosnian Serb authorities. Momcilo Krajisnik, the breakaway republic's deputy leader, was arrested in April. In March, an SAS team dragged Drajoljub Prcac from his car after smashing in the windows. He was indicted for murder and rape at the Omarska internment camp. General Stanislav Galic, the Serb commander who made Sarajevo a city of death was captured last December. The wartime Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, remain at large.