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SARAJEVO, September 10 (FENA) - The BiH state court on Monday found Mensur Djakicć guilty of having watched a member of the Croatian Defense Council battalion that he commanded murdering three captured Serbs and then failing to take measures to punish the killer.
“Considering all pieces of evidence presented at the trial, the Chamber has determined, beyond reasonable doubt, that Djakić, in his capacity as commander of the First Battalion of the 108th Brigade of the Croatian Defense Council, managed and commanded a military operation in the village of Bukvik on September 15, 1992,” said presiding judge Džemila Begović, BIRN reports.
Begović said the court found that the three Bosnian Serbs were injured and were being treated in a house in Bukvik when they were killed.
“The chamber found all three were incapacitated from fighting and were killed in plain sight in front of Djakić, who did nothing,” said the judge.
Begovic added that Djakić had a legal obligation to punish the perpetrator.
Under the same verdict, Croatian Defense Council ex-fighter Begzad Kajtazi was acquitted of killing two Serb women during the military operation in the village of Bukvik.
“The chamber has determined that, with regard to the accusations, the evidence presented does not have the necessary strength of plausibility that would make it possible to establish defendant Kajtazi’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt,” Begović said.
The judge said that witness testimony about Begzadi’s alleged participation in the killings was “conflicting and unclear”.
The verdict can be appealed.
(FENA) S. R.
