Ministry of defence Republic of Serbia
 
29.01.2015.

Communication



The Ministry of Defence most severely condemns today’s statement of the representative of the Humanitarian Law Center at the press conference at the Media Center. Claims about possession alleged documents that prove the responsibility of Head of the General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic for crimes committed in villages of Razala and Staro Cikatovo in Kosovo and Metohija, in April and May 1999, when he commanded the 37th motorized brigade are seen as the continuation of apparent orchestrated campaign against the defence system.

Such public statements of the Humanitarian Law Center are deemed as direct attempts to harm the reputation of the Republic of Serbia and its Armed Forces. Minister of Defence Bratislav Gasic gives his unreserved support to General Dikovic, who has successfully lead the Armed Forces of Serbia for years.

It is all the more clear that these are pre-planned attacks as these are the same claims that were publicly stated in 2011 as well, when Ljubisa Dikovic was named the Head of the General Staff. For such accusations, General Dikovic filed a law suit against the Humanitarian Law Center and Natasa Kandic in 2012, and the procedure is in progress.

The Humanitarian Law Center has referred again to the alleged military and police documents and statements of witnesses before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, remaining to this day the only institution that links General Dikovic with the aforementioned crimes.

This causes justified suspicion about the true intents and the goal of such accusations that the Ministry of Defence severely condemned in 2011 as well, as it does today, with strong belief that the public will separate the ungrounded accusations from the reputation that the Armed Forces of Serbia have had as an institution deserving of citizens’ utmost trust.

 
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