None of Seven Witnesses Appears

Trial Chamber Chairman Darko Samardzic said that most of the witnesses said that they were not able to appear due to health-related reasons.
Some of the invited witnesses have already been hospitalised, others are waiting to be hospitalised, while some said that their health had deteriorated – Samardzic explained.All of the witnesses, who were invited to this hearing, are from Serbia. They were supposed to testify about the count, charging Krsmanovic with having participated in kidnapping civilians from Sjeverin, Serbia.Prosecutor Mirko Lecic said that he insisted on examining four more witnesses in relation to this specific count, adding that he would give up the examination of all the others, but he did not specify the exact number of witnesses.
According to the charges, after having been taking out of a bus in Rudo municipality on October 22, 1992, 16 Bosniak civilians from Sjeverin were escorted to the Vilina Vlas hotel in Visegrad and killed after having been beaten up.Krsmanovic, a former member of the Second Podrinje Light Infantry Brigade with the Republika Srpska Army, is charged with having committed other murders, rape and abuse of the Bosniak population in Visegrad.The trial is due to continue on April 16.