Bosnia's prosecutor's office has indicted a Bosnian Serb former special police commander over his role in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, local SRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Bosnia's prosecutor's office charged Nedjo Ikonic over the role of his unit in the operation to detain several thousand Bosnian Muslim men who tried to flee Srebrenica after it was captured in July 1995 by Bosnian Serb forces, the SRNA agency said.

According to the indictment 46-year-old Ikonic ordered the execution of the captured Muslims and supervised the killing of more than 1,000 of them.

He had been held in Sarajevo since his extradition from the United States in January this year.

Ikonic was first arrested in late 2006 and later released on bail as part of a large US operation targetting former members of the Bosnian Serb military who lied about their military past when emigrating to the United States.

Some 40 Bosnian Serbs who had come to the US after Bosnia's 1992-1995 war between its Croats, Muslims and Serbs were arrested during the operation.

Some were charged by US courts for making false declarations and were due to be extradited, whilst others were allowed to remain in the country.

Some 8,000 Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica were killed after Bosnian Serbs captured the eastern town on July 11, 1995, in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

The atrocity has been ruled as a genocide by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, both based in The Hague.