Mladic: Beginning of Evidence Presentation Postponed
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In light of serious omissions by the prosecution in regard to disclosure of evidence, we have decided to suspend the beginning of the evidence presentation process, said Orie.
The prosecution was supposed to turn over all the evidence to the defence two weeks before the start of the trial but they realised a few days ago that not all the evidence had been entered into the system.
The Chamber will render a decision concerning the start date of the evidence presentation process at a later stage.
The trial of Mladic before the Hague Tribunal for genocide committed in Srebrenica and a few other municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war, began on May 16 this year.
He is charged with persecution of Bosniaks and Croats from 16 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, extermination, murders, deportations and other inhumane acts, as well as terrorizing citizens of Sarajevo by sniping and shelling them and taking international personnel hostages in the period from 1992 to 1995.
The Trial Chamber announced its decision to postpone the examination of the first witness at the end of the presentation of introductory arguments by the Prosecution.
We shall give all the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina what they have been waiting for long. We shall give all of the peoples, Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs or simply Bosnians, the truth on what Ratko Mladic did to that wonderful country and what Ratko Mladic did to the Bosnian people, Prosecutor Dermot Groome said, completing the presentation of his introductory statement.
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