Inspection of Grbavica Apartments
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Witness Hogan illustrated his testimony with photographs he took where Sarajevo residents were killed – such as the murder of seven-year-old Nermin Divovic and the wounding of his mother Dzenana Sokolovic on November 18, 1994.
According to the indictment, the same bullet first wounded the mother in the stomach and then killed the son, hitting him in the head. The Prosecution tried to prove that Bosnian Serb Army snipers shot at civilians from the Metalka building in Grbavica settlement.
The indictment charges Mladic with genocide against about 7,000 Bosniak men from Srebrenica in the days that followed the occupation of the UN-protected enclave by Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995.
He is also on trial for the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, terrorising civilians in Sarajevo and taking UN peacekeepers hostage.
During Hogan’s testimony, prosecutors tried to deny statements from Russian Colonel Andrei Demurenko that it was impossible to fire mortars from Trebevic locations which, according to UNPROFOR findings, were potential sources of the mortars which killed and wounded hundreds of citizens in Markale market in the winter of 1994.
According to the indictment, the mortar which killed 66 and wounded more than 140 citizens in February 1994, was fired from a Bosnian Serb position.
Investigator Hogan went to several of those locations in 2006. He showed the photographs and described the Trebevic locations as “flat and stable, which is suitable for mortar launchers”, which went against Demurenko’s testimony that the locations were “stony and impractical for the weapons”.
Presiding judge Alphons Orie warned the witness not to give military expertise. Hogan also admitted that Sarajevo or Markale market were not visible from Trebevic Mountain.
During cross examination, Mladic’s defence tried to deny the witness’s expertise for the investigation he conducted in Sarajevo, warning he is not an expert for snipers or mortars.
Lawyer Branko Lukic will continue his cross examination on Monday, September 30.
