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SARAJEVO, November 21 (FENA) - The state prosecution ordered the reopening of an investigation into five suspects accused of involvement in the May 1992 attack on a Yugoslav People’s Army convoy in Dobrovoljačka street while withdrawing from Sarajevo.
The prosecution said on Wednesday that it has rejected appeals against the reopening of the investigation into the attack on the Yugoslav People’s Army convoy on Dobrovoljačka Street in Sarajevo as it withdrew from the Bosnian capital in May 1992, BIRN reports.
The original investigation into Bosnian political and military officials was suspended in January 2012, causing anger among Serbs.
Relatives of the soldiers who were killed, with help from the interior ministry in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, appealed to the state Constitutional Court to restart the investigation.
In January this year, the Constitutional Court ordered the state prosecution to decide within three months on the relatives’ objections to the suspension of the probe.
The Yugoslav People’s Army convoy was attacked in Dobrovoljačka Street on May 3, 1992, as it was pulling out of Sarajevo, and several soldiers were killed or wounded.
Nobody has been tried for the deaths so far.
The Serbian authorities claim that over 40 Yugoslav servicemen and officers were killed and more than 70 wounded.
As a result of an investigation in Serbia, two suspects were detained in recent years - former Bosnian presidency member Ejup Ganić was arrested in Britain and former Bosnian Army general Jovan Divjak in Austria.
But courts in Britain and Austria decided not to extradite them to Serbia, but to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Meanwhile, the question of erecting a memorial at the site of the soldiers’ deaths in Dobrovoljačka Street has long been a matter of dispute.
(FENA) S. R.
