A Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect has pleaded guilty to killing fourteen Muslims and Croats in a prison camp at Luka in northern Bosnia in 1992.

But the suspect, Goran Jelisic, pleaded not guilty before the United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague to the charge of genocide.

Jelisic, who is thirty, told the tribunal he had admitted to the killings to cleanse his soul.

Hundreds of Muslims and Croats were detained at Luka on the Sava river after being forced from their homes by rebel Serbs.