Jerusalem ( CNN ) -- Israeli police arrested Tuesday an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who is suspected of participating in the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica . Aleksander Cvetkovic immigrated to Israel with his wife , who is Jewish , and children in 2006 and received Israeli citizenship , said a statement from the Israeli Justice Ministry . The Israeli state prosecutor 's office received an extradition request for him last August from the Bosnian government . The decision to open an extradition process came after months of examining evidence . That evidence exposes shocking details of the massacre of Muslims at Braniewo farm , the ministry said . `` Hundreds of Bosnian civilians were bused to the farm handcuffed and blindfolded . They were led to the killing fields where firing squads made up of Bosnian-Serb soldiers shot them in cold blood , '' the ministry said . Cvetkovic actively participated in the massacre and was one of eight soldiers in the firing squad , the state prosecutor 's office said . The extradition process , it said , is part of `` an international legal action that investigates and prosecutes those responsible for planning and carrying out genocide . '' About 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in Srebrenica in 1995 . Radovan Karadzic , the Bosnian Serb president at the time , is accused of being responsible for the massacre . Srebrenica became an emblem for the dissolution of Yugoslavia -- once a multi-ethnic state of Serbs , Croats , Muslims and others -- into six countries during bloody and brutal conflicts in the early 1990s . CNN 's Michal Zippori , contributed to this report .
Milan Cvetkovic is wanted in Serbia for his role in the Sarajevo massacre . About 800 Muslim men and boys were killed in Srebrenica . He is accused of being part of a eight - man firing squad .