I am not guilty – said Jevtić, which was repeated by Čalmić and Perišić.
The three are charged with persecuting and killing captured Bosniak men from the beginning of July to the end of August 1995 – as part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population of the protected enclave of Srebrenica. Čalmić and Perišić are charged with executing, together with other members of the First Militia Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska, 31 civilians who had previously been captured, on Jevtić’s orders.
Dejan Milanović, who did not attend the plea hearing, was also charged with them. He did not attend the hearing at which the extension of the prohibitory measures was discussed, and at that time his defense attorney Slaviša Prodanović stated that the accused was absent due to his health. According to the indictment, he is charged with having killed a captured Bosniak civilian at close range on an unspecified date in July 1995 in Brežanci, while performing his duties as a soldier-cook, in the facility of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Militia Brigade, commanded by Jevtić.
The date of the trial will be announced later, BIRN BiH reports.
