Sarajevo Police Commander Pleads Innocent to War Crimes
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“Your honour, I am not guilty,” Vikic told the judge.
The defendants are accused of being responsible for the murders of eight Yugoslav People’s Army soldiers who were captured after their military vehicle broke down in Sarajevo’s Dobrinja district in April 1992.
“After that, the prisoners were taken to the Great Park, near the police headquarters building in the centre of Sarajevo, where they were killed with a burst of gunfire,” the indictment alleges.
The prosecution claims all the defendants “were informed about the crime or personally witnessed it, then failed to arrest, prosecute and sanction the perpetrators and prevent the removal of evidence and the hiding of the bodies”, it said in December.
Vikic said in December that all the defendants were innocent.
“My hands and those of people whom I commanded are clean,” he said.
