article_snippet: Prosecutors have made Serbia's first arrests of people suspected of carrying out 1995's Srebrenica massacre -  a significant milestone toward healing the wounds of Europe's worst civilian slaughter since World War II.
article_snippet: Serbia in the past has put on trial men who took a group of prisoners away from Srebrenica to be killed.
article_snippet: And in 2011 Serbia arrested Ratko Mladic - the warlord who masterminded the slaughter — and sent Chief Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic to an international criminal court in The Hague, Netherlands.
article_snippet: But today's arrests are Serbia's first attempt to bring to justice men who got justice men who got their hands bloody in the killing machine known as the Srebrenica massacre 20 years ago
article_snippet: this July hands bloody in the killing machine known as the massacre Srebrenica 20 years ago this July. '
article_snippet: It is important to stress that this is the first time that our prosecutor's office is dealing with the mass killings of civilians and war prisoners in Srebrenica,' Bruno Vekaric, the lead Serb prosecutor in the case, said.
article_snippet: We have never dealt with a crime of such proportions,' said Vekaric, Serbia's deputy War Crimes Prosecutor. '
article_snippet: The collaboration Wednesday by prosecutors from former wartime enemies Serbia and Bosnia — supported by the U.N. war crimes tribunal — is the most important case of judicial teamwork helping to heal the war's festering wounds.
article_snippet: Many Serbs still view as heroes Many Serbs wartime leaders - including Mladic and former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who are on trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal - and believe Many Serbs were victims of a Western plot.
article_snippet: When the Bosnian war ended in a peace deal in 1995, Milidragovic - who is now 58 - moved to the Serbian capital, Belgrade.