During the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, a Bosnian court acquitted a former police commander of killing eight ethnic Serb prisoners of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court said in a statement that Dragan Vikic and three other former police officers were acquitted because \u201cit was not shown that they had done the illegal crimes that they were accused of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After their car broke down in a Sarajevo suburb in April 1992, the eight victims, all Yugoslav People\u2019s Army (JNA) troops, were detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the prosecution, they were taken to a city park where they were shot dead and their remains were removed from the execution scene to conceal the murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So yet, only partial bones of two of them have been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two of the police officers who testified alongside Vikic were accused of taking part in the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vikic, who led a special Bosnian interior ministry unit, and another suspect were accused of knowing about the crime but failing to prevent it and punish the offenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Vikic walked out of the courthouse after his acquittal, dozens of people, including many of his wartime companions, greeted him with clapping and cheers, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDragan Vikic is the city\u2019s hero!\u201d read banners carried by some in the crowd, as others posed with him for photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the 44-month siege of Sarajevo by Serb forces, almost 11,500 people were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between Croats, Muslims, and Serbs lasted from 1992 until 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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