PODGORICA, August 15, 2008 (AFP) - Montenegrin prosecutors on Friday charged six former soldiers with torture of Croatian civilians at a prison camp soon after the outbreak of Croatia's independence war.

The six were indicted for 'torture' and other abuse of the victims, who had been brought to a Montenegrin camp from the Croatian coastal town of Dubrovnik, the state prosecution said in a statement.

All of them are Montenegrin nationals who were serving as reservists in the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) at the time of the incidents between October 1991 and August 1992.

The prosecution called for them to be detained for the 'inhumane treatment of 169 Croatian prisoners at the Morinj detention centre' near the Montenegrin coastal town of Kotor.

Earlier this month, police in Montenegro arrested seven former JNA soldiers wanted for the 1999 murder of 23 ethnic Albanian civilians who fled the war in neighbouring Kosovo.