Prosecutor plan to deny Karadzic evidence
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In status conference, prosecutor Alan Tieger said that is necessary because the Prosecution is planning until the end of the week to reopen and present evidence about the crimes of Serbian forces in Prijedor in 1992, found in the mass grave at Tomasica.
Prosecutors, also, will ask to deny some evidence by Karadzic’s Defence.
According to estimates by prosecutor Tieger, after that, the evidence caseload at the trial of Karadzic will be done until end of April.
In this hearing, a representative of the Croatia government should have testified about authenticity of recording discussions which during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the government recorded. Those recordings, Karadzic used in his evidence case.
The Defence asked the Trial Chamber that the witness must come before Court given a special subpoena but during the hearing it was decided that authenticity of recordings can be proven without the witness in the courtroom.
Karadzic previously asked for one year for preparing the closing arguments after the closure of the evidence presentation.
The last of the 238 Defence witnesses, Karadzic called on February 20, when he decided that he would not testify in his defence.
The indictment charges Karadzic, former president of the Republika Srpska for genocide in Srebrenica, the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats across Bosnia and Herzegovina, which in seven municipalities reached the scale of genocide, terrorising citizens of Sarajevo and taking hostage UN “blue helmets”.
The Trial Chamber will make a decision at a later stage.
