Detainee suspected in massacre

Detainee suspected in massacre

Despite this, Ikonić has been charged only with lying on his immigration application and may face no other charges in the United States, investigators say.

A truck driver living in Greenfield, Wis., Ikonić, 40, lied to immigration officials in Belgrade in April 2002 about his military service, prosecution documents say. By 2002, his name was already known to prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague.

In wake of war crimes

UN investigators there have chronicled the Srebrenica massacre in painstaking detail because the July 1995 killings constituted the worst war crime in Europe since World War II. Over the course of several days, Bosnian Serb soldiers and police officers separated more than 7,000 boys and men from their families, took them to secret locations and executed them.

The man investigators believe to have been Ikonić's superior officer, Ljubomir Borovacanin, is on trial at The Hague for genocide and other war crimes. His indictment chronicles in detail the actions of Special Police from the Jahorina Training Center, where investigators believe Ikonić was a company commander at the time. It alleges men from this group of Special Police:

Helped separate "over 1,000 Bosnian Muslim men from the women and children and transported these men to temporary detention sites in Bratunac on 12 and 13 July 1995." Some Muslim men were tortured and killed at these sites in the town of Bratunac; most were kept there before being taken to other places to be executed.

Participated in the separation of men from women before at least 24 men and six women were the victims of "opportunistic killings" in the village of Potocari.

"Were present at the [Kravica] Warehouse when the executions started and participated in the killings." More than 1,000 Muslim men were shot dead in this episode on July 13.

Summarily executed "a group of 10 to 15 Bosnian Muslim prisoners held in custody at Sandici Meadow" on the evening of July 13.

In 2000, investigators from the tribunal prosecutor's office interviewed one of Borovacanin's other officers.

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