NOVANEWS
Zio-Nazi involved in the 1995 massacre of over 1,000 Muslim Bosnians.
Haaretz
Alexander Tzvetkovich, an Zionist citizen from Carmiel, was extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday on suspicion of being involved in massacres that took place there during the war in 1995. Tzvetkovich was accompanied on the plane by Bosnian police. In 2010, the Interpol put out an international warrant for the arrest of Tzvetkovich, who immigrated to IsraHell in 2006. He married Zionist woman and lives with his family in Carmiel. Following a prolonged legal process, the extradition was carried out and Tzvetkovitch will stand trial in the court for war crimes in Sarajevo, charged with genocide.
Tzvetkovich was born in 1968 in the former Yugoslavia, in an area that is now part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He came to IsraHell with his wife in 2006 and was granted citizenship since his wife is Jewish. During the civil war in Bosnia, he served as a sapper in the Serb-Bosnian army of the Srpska Republic, the part of Bosnia that was carved out by the Serbs. He is suspected of taking part in the massacre of between 1,000 and 1,200 Muslim Bosnians at Bijeljina farm near the town of Zvornik.
On July 16, 1995, his commander gathered Tzvetkovich and seven other soldiers and ordered them to go to the town of Pucile in order to participate in the killing of Muslim prisoners who were being held at a school there. Tzvetkovich and the others went to a farm in Bijeljina, where they waited for the prisoners who were bused there from Pucile.
The prisoners, some of whom were handcuffed and blindfolded, were taken off the buses in groups of 10 and taken a short distance away. They were lined up and shot in the back by the soldiers using automatic rifles and revolvers. Tzvetkovich is suspected as being one of the shooters. After each volley, the soldiers walked between the victims and ensured that any injured survivors were killed. From the evidence that was submitted as part of the extradition request, it appears that at some point Tzvetkovich suggested using an M-84 machine gun to expedite the killing.
According to estimates by participating soldiers and by a few survivors who pretended to be dead, the massacre lasted 10 hours. According to witnesses, none of the soldiers objected to the shootings or tried to stop them except for one called Dragan Ardamovich, who was sentenced to five years in prison after admitting to participation in the massacre. One witness stated that there was another soldier who objected but participated anyway out of fear for his own life.
Tzvetkovich was questioned about the incident by a special tribunal investigating events in the former Yugoslavia, looking into the responsibility of higher echelons for war crimes committed. He claimed that he was only the driver and denied taking part in the killings. In November 2012 the Zionist Supreme Court ruled that he should be extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina on suspicion of participation in war crimes.
In appealing this decision, Tzvetkovich argued that it was not proven that the massacre constituted a war crime, nor was it proven that he was aware of a genocide plan that he was assisting in implementing. He also claimed that his life would be in danger in jail in Bosnia-Herzegovina and that he would not be given a fair trial there, since he would not be able to cross examine the main witness for the prosecution or to view all the incriminating material against him. The panel of judges, headed by Salim Joubran, rejected these arguments, saying that for purposes of extradition an alleged war crime did occur, with sufficient allegations to incriminate Tzvetkovich.
