Lekic testified at the County Court in Split on September 23 in a retrial of eight former military police charged with war crimes committed against civilians in Split's military prison Lora in 1992.
Lekic told a press conference the media were presenting "only one side", through the testimonies of witnesses for the prosecution, so that the public would get the impression that war crimes against civilians were committed in Lora.
He said the defendants were on trial for the murder of two prisoners, "alleged civilians" Nenad Knezevic and Gojko Bulovic, who Lekic said were not civilians but terrorists of the former Yugoslav Army's Counterintelligence KOS. "Evidence of that exists at (SIS), but it was never delivered to the court, nor did the court ask for them."
Lekic said the warrant for their arrest was signed by a military investigating judge and that they were the only two prisoners at Lora, of the 1,500 who were detained there, who tried to escape. "Knezevic and Bulovic disarmed a guard and then shot at our military police. They were killed as they were being overpowered."
Lekic recalled that a KOS commander, General Aleksandar Vasiljevic, said in the trial of ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague war crimes tribunal that the task of KOS was to destabilise Croatia by causing sabotages and spreading panic. Lekic wondered what would have happened if Knezevic and Bulovic had escaped.
He said that a military police investigation of the attempted escape did not yield any grounds to punish the military police, and that the International Red Cross did not have any objections during its four visits to Lora.