Not Even Physicians Can Help the Witness
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“I am not feeling well. I feel weak, I do not even have the strength to sit,” said witness SM-102, testifying from a separate room with his voice being altered.
Physicians gave medications to the witness, who began feeling unwell before the beginning of the hearing.
The Trial Chamber asked the witness if he could begin testifying, telling him that his testimony could be interrupted at any stage, but he repeated that he was not feeling well at all. The Prosecutor’s allegations that he would shorten the examination to only half an hour did not help either.
This witness tried to testify last Wednesday, March 12 as well, but he did not feel well before the hearing, so physicians gave him a tranquiliser. His examination was then postponed.
Stanisic and Milosevic are on trial for having committed murders of about 1,000 captives from Srebrenica on a dam near Petkovci village, Zvornik municipality, in mid July 1995.
According to the charges, Stanisic was Commander of the Sixth Battalion of Zvornik Brigade with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, which was based in Petkovci, while Milosevic was his Deputy.
The trial is due to continue on Wednesday, March 26. It is planned that witness SM-102 will be invited again and that a Prosecution’s expert witness will testify as well.
