Photos and Recordings from Sarajevo Battlefields

Hogan explained that he made the recordings and photos in 2001 and 2006. As he said, he was brought to those places by witnesses or citizens, who were wounded in the incidents mentioned in the indictment against Mladic.

By presenting the recordings and photographs in the courtroom, the prosecutors tried to prove that the places at which civilians were killed or wounded were visible from positions held by the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, from which fire was opened, according to the charges.

Proving the VRS responsibility for the wounding of three-year old Anisa Pita in Sirokaca neighbourhood on December 13, 1992, The Hague Prosecution showed Hogan’s photograph of the spot on the balcony of a family house, where the girl was standing, when she was wounded. As depicted on the photograph, while standing at that place one could see the Baba Stijena elevation in the distance. According to the charges, a VRS sniper opened fire from the mentioned elevation.

Prosecution investigator Hogan said that Anisa Pita’s parents showed to him the direction from which the bullet had come.

Mladic’s Defence attorney Branko Lukic objected by saying that the photograph “does not show” any of the things mentioned by the prosecutors, but the Trial Chamber rejected his objection.

Mladic, former Commander of VRS, is charged with terrorising civilians in Sarajevo through long-lasting shelling and sniping. He is on trial for genocide in Srebrenica, persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, which reached the scale of genocide in seven municipalities, and taking UNPROFOR members hostage.

By presenting a 360 degree panoramic photo and Hogan’s video recording, the prosecutors tried to prove that the place at which Munira Zametica was fetching water from a river in Dobrinja neighbourhood on July 11, 1993 could be seen from the bell tower of an unfinished Orthodox church in Veljine from which, according to the charges, the bullet that killed Zametica came.

As an additional piece of evidence, The Hague Prosecution presented two documents issued by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to which a VRS observatory point, which was held by snipers who occasionally opened fire, was situated inside the church bell tower.

The prosecutors used the same method for illustrating the wounding of Nafa Taric and her daughter, while they walked a street in Sarajevo downtown area on September 3, 1993, and sniper attack against Ramiza Kundo on November 2, 1995.

The examination of investigator Hogan is due to continue on Friday, September 27.