Intercepting VRS Conversations
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Mladic’s Defence attorney Dragan Ivetic suggested that, prior to the transcripts being handed over to The Hague Prosecution in 1998, operators, including amateur radio operators, added words, which had not even been said, into them.
Protected witness RM-279 denied this, sticking to his allegation that the operators wrote down only what they heard and recorded on tape.
When asked whether his unit maintained any contacts with NATO or UNPROFOR prior to handing the materials over to prosecutors, RM-279 said that they did not have any contacts with UNPROFOR.
The witness was not able to give a definitive answer to Defence attorney Ivetic’s suggestion that ABiH did not intercept any conversation involving General Mladic, particularly during the offensive on Srebrenica in July 1995.
The indictment charges Mladic, former Commander of VRS, with genocide against 7,000 Srebrenica Muslims and other crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Most part of the cross-examination was dedicated to explaining technical details about the interception process, frequencies and devices used by ABiH operators.
During the presentation of evidence against Mladic the Prosecution relied upon a number of intercepted conversations between identified and unidentified VRS members.
The trial is due to continue on June 28.
