In those interviews Kadijević stated that he had lived in Russia since 2000 as a refugee . He said he found out about the Vukovar massacre only after retiring because the head of intelligence , General Aleksandar Vasiljević , did not inform him of this event . Kadijević claimed neither he nor the JNA committed any war crimes in the former Yugoslavia as it was the only legal armed force at the time . He stated that he and the JNA tried to prevent illegal armaments and to defend Yugoslavia from emerging separatist paramilitaries and dismissed the ICTY as a political institution , whose legitimacy he did not recognize
Vukovar massacre
Vukovar massacre
Veljko Kadijević