Bosnian Muslim officers held

The U.N. court is headed by chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (CNN) -- Three Bosnian Muslim wartime military officers have been detained on arrest warrants from the U.N. war crimes court.

The government of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation said in a statement it would hand the men over to the court in The Hague, Netherlands.

The three officers are two retired generals and an active brigadier.

The statement said they voluntarily surrendered to the members of the federation's interior ministry after being served with extradition decisions by the Constitutional Court.

The statement named the generals as Mehmed Alagic and Enver Hadzihasanovic and the brigadier as Amir Kubura.

It said the court had acted on the basis of secret indictments and arrest warrants from the war crimes court.

"These indictments were raised against individuals who executed prominent functions in the army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and relate to their command responsibility in the war period," the statement said.

"The persons to whom the indictments relate will be sent to The Hague either with their consent or according to the Constitutional Court's decisions."

There were no details of the indictments.

The generals were members of the former Yugoslav People's Army before the Bosnian war broke out. Alagic became commander of the Bosnian army's Third Corps in central Bosnia during the war.

Reuters said he retired after the war and was elected head of the Sanski Most municipality in western Bosnia. The agency said he was later removed from the post and earlier this year was sentenced by a local court to four years in prison for abuse of power.

Hadzihasanovic retired last year after holding several army posts during the war and becoming commander of the Third Corps and later chief of staff of the Muslim-Croat federation army's joint command.

Kubura was the commander of the Seventh Muslim brigade, based in central Bosnia, from 1993-4, Reuters said.

A spokeswoman for the war crimes tribunal acknowledged that indictments had been handed down, but would not specify for whom.

After the war, Bosnia was split into the Muslim-Croat federation and the Bosnian Serb republic.

In 1996, the federation extradited to The Hague two Muslims who were later sentenced to 20 and 15 years in prison for war crimes committed against Serbs in a detention camp near Sarajevo.

Last month, the Serb Republic passed a law to co-operate with The Hague tribunal but has not yet arrested any war crimes suspects.