Bosniak Policeman Pleads Innocent to Torturing Serbs
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“Honourable court, I am not guilty,” Vejzovic said as he entered his not guilty plea at the court in Sarajevo on Friday.
Vejzovic is charged with torturing, abusing and harassing Serb men between June and September 1992.
The indictment alleges that the Stupari police illegally detained Serb civilians in buildings near the Petar Markovic primary school in Stupari, where they interrogated and tortured them between late May 1992 and July 21, 1993.
Interrogations were also carried out in the primary school, and occasionally in the nearby villages of Olovci and Lupoglavo.
Vejzovic is accused of punching the detained Serb civilians in the head and groin, kicking them, hitting them with a baton and a rifle butt, putting a gun and a knife under their throats, threatening them and forcing them to eat paper.
The trial will begin in the coming weeks.
