BiH: Sarajevo Police Commander Indicted for War Crimes Against Serbs

SARAJEVO - A Sarajevo police commander of special forces during 1992-95 was indicted on Thursday for war crimes against Serb prisoners early in the war.

Dragan Vikic, 59, and then Bosnian Interior Minister Jusuf Pusina, are accused of knowing, approving and covering up the killing of eight soldiers of the then Yugoslavian army (JNA) in Sarajevo Great Park in April 1992, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The soldiers, who were trapped in a broken armored vehicle at the outskirts of Sarajevo while trying to leave the city as part of a JNA convoy, were killed in a machine-gun burst and their bodies taken away to an unknown location, it said.

The two men are the highest profile wartime officials accused so far of war crimes against Serbs in Sarajevo. Vikic dismissed any connection with the incident.

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