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“I am not guilty,” Lazar Ristic, one of six former Bosnian Serb Army troops accused of assisting a joint criminal enterprise in the commission of genocide against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, told the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday.
The other defendants – Mladen Mihajlovic, Sreten Milosevic, Dragoja Ivanovic, Stanoja and Milorad Bircakovic – also pleaded not guilty.
They are accused, in their wartime roles as officers and soldiers of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade, of participating in capturing and forcibly detaining more than 800 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica at the Grbavci school in Orahovac.
They are also accused of participating in an operation to transport the detainees to the site near the school where the Bosniaks were shot and their bodies buried in two mass graves using mechanical diggers.
