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Former Serb paramilitary acquitted of war crimes against POW in Medak

Autor: mses
BELGRADE, July 1 (Hina) - The Belgrade High Court's war crimes chamber on Friday acquitted Perica Djakovic of charges that he committed crimes against prisoners of war in the southern Croatian village of Medak in September 1991.

At the commencement of his retrial on 9 May this year, Djakovic pleaded not guilty. He was put on retrial after the Appellate Court quashed Djakovic's acquittal in the original trial and ordered a retrial.

On 23 June 2010, the chamber sentenced Milorad Lazic, 45, and Nikola Konjevic, 56, to three years in jail each for the war crime in Medak. Mirko Marunic, 42, was given a prison term of two years and Djakovic, 42, was acquitted of the charges of inhumane treatment of Mirko Medunic, a captured member of the Croatian Interior Ministry, because the prosecution failed to prove his responsibility for the crime. At that verdict-delivering hearing Judge Vinka Beraha-Nikicevic said at the time that the defendants had committed a war crime against the prisoner of war after he surrendered his weapons to them. Beraha-Nikicevic said Lazic, Marunic and Konjevic, former members of Territorial Defence units, beat and kicked Medunic, cutting him with a knife and causing him great suffering

Croatia referred the case to Serbian prosecutors in line with the 2006 agreement between Croatia and Serbia on cooperation in the prosecution of war crimes.

(Hina) ms

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