A man accused of partaking in the Srebrenica massacre has lost his appeal against an extradition to Bosnia, the first time a genocide suspect has been liable for eviction in Israel.
Aleksandar Cvetkovic, an Israeli citizen, was arrested in January 2011 after an international arrest warrant was issued. Bosnia and Herzegovina have since called for his extradition, which the suspect was fighting.
In his ruling Justice Salim Joubran said,
"the appellant, along with other soldiers, participated in the murders of hundreds of Muslim civilians, some of whom had their hands bound and their eyes covered, some shot in the back with pistols, others beaten to death with sticks, and buried in mass graves."
He went on to say that Cvetkovic contributed to the
"decimation of the Muslim population in Srebrenica or that he at least turned a blind eye towards [it]."
