The prosecution appealed against the verdict acquitting Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of a Bosnian interior ministry police unit in besieged Sarajevo, of involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav military prisoners in 1992.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of a Bosnian interior ministry police unit in besieged Sarajevo, was acquitted of involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners in 1992.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of interior ministry police units in Sarajevo, and Jusuf Pusina, a former Bosnian interior ministry official, went on trial over the killing of eight prisoners of war in 1992.
The trial of Dragan Vikic, Jusuf Pusina and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, who are all accused of crimes against prisoners of war, began at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units in besieged Sarajevo, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners in 1992.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units, former interior ministry chief Jusuf Pusina, and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, all pleaded not guilty to war crimes at the state court in Sarajevo on Monday.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units, was charged alongside three other ex-officers with killing eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners of war in 1992.
The state prosecution on Thursday charged the four former police officers with war crimes, alleging they were responsible for the murders of eight Yugoslav People’s Army soldiers who were captured after their military vehicle broke down in Sarajevo in April 1992.