The war-time commander of the Fifth Corps of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina, who now lives in Bihac, told the local press on Tuesday that the only true claim was that he had commanded the operation shown the previous day by the Serbian state television, which accused him of intentionally burning Serb villages in the Bosanska Krajina region.
"It is true that I commanded the operation, but it is not true that crimes were committed," Dudakovic was quoted by the Una-Sana Canton TV network as saying.
He added that if crimes did happen, they were isolated incidents.
The Bosnian media showed great interest in the footage showing Dudakovic's participation in the war operations of September 1995, but he mostly denied comment on the accusations, the only exception being the brief statement to the press in Bihac.
Dudakovic recalled that the Bihac enclave had been besieged by Serb forces for more than 1,200 days and wondered what else his forces should have done but defend themselves.
"To surrender and go through what Srebrenica has gone through or to fight?," said Dudakovic, who believes that the case was politicised and aimed at influencing the outcome of Bosnia's aggression and genocide lawsuit against Serbia and Montenegro.
Before the showing of the footage with war crimes for which he is held responsible, Dudakovic said he had always insisted on lawfulness in the zone under his command.
Speaking of the footage showing members of the "Hamze" unit from his corps killing a Serb man, Dudakovic said that it was the murder of a "soldier in a bunker" and that it could not be compared to the footage of the cruel murder of captured Muslims by the Scorpions unit.
The Oslobodjenje daily cited Dudakovic yesterday as saying that it should be checked if the people in the footage were members of the "Hamze" unit at all.
He also said that he had never heard of the "Black Mambas" unit.