Bosnian Serbs plead not guilty to war crimes

Two Bosnian Serbs who surrendered to the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia last month pleaded not guilty today to war crimes allegations.

Former Bosnian Serb military policeman Gojko Jankovic and Gen. Radivoje Miletic contested charges for alleged involvement in crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

Jankovic, 50, was accused of 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian Serb assault on the town of Foca, south-east of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, in the summer of 1992.

Miletic, 57, faces charges stemming from the July 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the UN-protected Srebrenica enclave in eastern Bosnia.

Both men had requested more time to consider the charges at their first court appearances in March.

They are among more than a dozen suspects to turn themselves in to the UN court in The Hague in recent months.