Rackovics Trial Closed to Public
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Prosecutor Dzevad Muratbegovic said that witness RV-5 previously testified before The Hague Tribunal under certain protection measures. The Trial Chamber closed a part of the hearing to public in order to question the witness about those measures. After that the Chamber decided that the public would be excluded during her testimony at this trial.
The indictment charges Rackovic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, with having participated in attacks on Bosniak villages, detention, torture, forced disappearances of persons from the Visegrad area and rape in the period from May to the end of August 1992.
It further alleges that some of the unlawfully arrested persons have never been found, while bodies of some of the civilians were exhumed at Slap location in Zepa in 2000.
According to the official schedule of hearings to be held before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this trial continues on February 26.
