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The Sarajevo policeman, Dragan Miokovic, who took part in investigations into those attacks, last Friday testified that the grenades came from the positions of the Army of Republika Srpska around the city.
Referring to the investigation into the explosion of three grenades which killed three civilians on November 8, 1994 in Livanjska Street in Sarajevo, Mladics lawyer, Miodrag Stojanovic, presented the witness with the fact that UNPROFOR had established that the first grenade which killed a young brother and sister was fired from the position of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Miokovic agreed it was UNPROFORs view, which is why the next day there was a parallel investigation of the scene by the international forces and Sarajevo police.
When the lawyer claimed that after that investigation UNPROFOR stuck by its original findings, the witness said that he did not know what their official stance was.
Miokovic added that the three grenades fell on Livanjska Street within an hour from diametrically opposing sides.
He did not agree with the lawyers claim that UNPROFOR had said it was prevented by Sarajevo police from investigating the scene immediately after the explosion. Miokovic said that a member of the international forces tried to take out the stabilizer of the exploded grenade from the ground by hand and that he only warned him not to do that.
Mladic, former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska, is charged with terrorising civilians of Sarajevo through long campaigns of artillery and sniper attacks.
In his main testimony, Miokovic said that the shots at trams were fired from the positions and sniper nests of the Army of Republika Srpska in the Metalka building and four tall tower blocks at Grbavica.
Asked by Stojanovic whether he knew that the positions of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina were located at nearby buildings of the Parliament, Government and UNIS, the witness refrained by saying that as a policeman he did not know where the soldiers were deployed.
Having in mind the proximity of the front lines except for the UNIS buildings which were further away I would not be surprised if the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina was positioned there, said Miokovic.
Stojanovic asked Miokovic why he said in his testimony that until the war he declared himself a Yugoslav, and during the war as a Serb, since in one deposition in 1995 he declared himself as a Bosnian.
I dont understand what the issue here is. I was born from a Serb father and Serb mother. Before the war I declared myself a Yugoslav, which did not derogate my Serb heritage. I dont see how the fact that I said I was a Bosnian in any way degraded or stripped me from my right to feel like a Serb, replied Miokovic.
The presentation of evidence against General Mladic, who is also being tried for the genocide in Srebrenica and the expulsion of Muslims and Croats across Bosnia and Herzegovina, will resume tomorrow with the testimony from another witness.
