Mladic Expert Claims Srebrenica Graves Not Related to Genocide

“I still believe that the prosecution’s list contains the names of people who were killed prior to 1995…Those people could be found in the graves, but…the fact that somebody was found in one of the graves does not mean they were killed in July 1995,” Radovanovic said.

Radovanovic said she came to this conclusion based on documents issued by the Bosnian military and Ministry of Defense.

Responding to a comment by Hague prosecutors,  Radovanovic confirmed that she used a list of victims from 2009, and said she hadn’t taken into account the updated 2013 list. Errors related to 80 out of a total of 220 people who were allegedly killed prior to 1995 were corrected in the updated list.

At today’s hearing Radovanovic completed her testimony, which began on Monday.

Mladic’s defense attorneys than continued examining witness Simo Tusevljak, who began his testimony in July. Tusevljak will continue his testimony on Monday, August 31.

Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, has been charged with the Srebrenica genocide, in which approximately 7,000 Bosniak men from Srebrenica were killed. The mass killings took place in the days that followed the occupation of Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb Army on July 11, 1995.

Mladic has also been charged with persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina which reached the scale of genocide in six municipalities, terrorizing the local population of Sarajevo and taking UNPROFOR members hostage.