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Bosnia police commander charged with war crimes

A former Bosnian police commander and then interior minister, Dragan Vikic has been charged for war crimes committed in 1992. 
Mr Vikic, along with three former officers is accused of killing eith Yugoslav People's Army prisoners of war who were captured after their vehicle broke down in Sarajevo in April 1992. 
“After that, the prisoners were taken to the Great Park, near the police headquarters building in the centre of Sarajevo, where they were killed with a burst of gunfire,” the indictment states. 
Mr Vikic has denied all the allegations.
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