Ivan Medics defense said in their closing statement today that Medic did not commit crimes against civilians in Dretelj. Medics defense attorney, Emina Hasanovic, requested that the court hand down a not guilty verdict.
The former deputy commander of Croatian Defence Forces wartime Dretelj detention camp admitted that he abused Serb prisoners in 1992 and begged for their forgiveness.
A defence witness told Ratko Mladics trial in The Hague that Bosniaks were killed near the Bosnian Serbs Manjaca prison camp in 1992, but blamed the crimes on civilian police.
A state prosecution witness named Jovo Djukic said that his brothers told him they were burnt with a soldetron (a welding tool, similar to a blowtorch) while in detention in Rapatnica during the Bosnian war.
At todays hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial, a former intelligence officer of the Bosnian Serb Army said that Muslim and Croat prisoners held at the Manjaca camp in 1992 were treated according to international conventions.