The attack on three Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) conscripts carrying a white flag on 28 June 1991 in a battle for the Holmec border crossing, which also claimed the lives of some members of the Slovene Territorial Defence, has been made topical again recently.
"The case is clear, and the Office of the Prosecutor will not comment on various allegations which have no grounds in court files," Brezigar told the Slovene news agency STA on Thursday in an interview given on the occasion of the first anniversary of her term in office.
She explained that the prosecution in the Slovene town of Slovenj Gradec investigated the case for the first time in 1991. Another investigation was carried out in 1999 when all relevant documents were thoroughly checked, showing that there was no suspicion that Slovene soldiers or policemen had committed the alleged crime, the Chief State Prosecutor added.
The speculation about the war crime against the JNA conscripts reappeared in the public after the broadcasting of old footage made by the Austrian ORF TV station showing the attempt of the three conscripts to surrender to the Slovenes at the Holmec border crossing between Slovenia and Austria.
The incumbent defence minister of Serbia-Montenegro, Zoran Stankovic, on Tuesday told the media in Belgrade that the JNA conscripts shown in the recording were alive. Two of them live in Serbia and one in Slovenia, according to the minister.
The head of the Slovene Helsinki Committee (HMS), Niva Miklavcic Predan, said in Zagreb on Thursday that Stankovic had given this statement due to pressure from Slovenia.
Miklavcic Predan held a news conference with human rights activists from Croatia to present the case of the 34-year-old Croat Josip Birkic who was severely wounded and became disabled when in 1991, as a JNA conscript, he was attacked by the Slovene forces near the border with Italy.
The human rights activists said that Birkic was not able to exercise his rights or receive any benefits as a war invalid because he was treated as belonging to "neither side".
Although his arrival was announced, Birkic did not attend the news conference.