(ANSA) - BELGRADO, JUL 30 - The District Court of Split, Croatia, has found retired general of the former Yugoslav National Army (JNA), Borislav Djukić, an ethnic Serb, guilty of war crimes against the Croatian civilian population, committed on Croatian territory between August 1991 and May 1992. The former general was sentenced to 16 years in prison, according to reports in Croatian and Serbian media. The indictment filed by the Split County Prosecutor's Office accuses General Djukić of ordering his subordinates to indiscriminately attack the civilian population in the Šibenik area, Skradin, Vodice, and Drniš with artillery and infantry during the relatively brief conflict between the Yugoslav Army and the Croatian armed forces, which had just been formed following the declaration of independence. The same verdict, handed down yesterday, also found six military and police officers guilty: Jovan Grubić, Milorad Radić, and Petar Andrić—all of whom were high-ranking officers in the JNA at the time—were each sentenced to 16 years, while 10-year sentences were handed down to Vladimir Davidović, a JNA officer; Ilija Prijić, secretary of the SUP (the Yugoslav police agency that managed local militias in the various republics) in Knin, in the Serb-majority Croatian region of Krajina, Ilija Prijić, and the head of the SUP in Knin, Slobodan Vujko. They are accused of arrests, mistreatment, torture, and causing bodily harm to the local population, as well as the destruction of residential, commercial, cultural, and religious buildings. Djukić was arrested by Montenegrin police on July 8, 2015, at Tivat Airport, pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by Croatia for war crimes. After eight months in pretrial detention, he was extradited to Croatia on March 8, 2016, following a decision by the Montenegrin authorities. Since then, he has been held at the pretrial detention center of the Split County Court in Bilice. (ANSA).