A witness at the war crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb military policeman Savo Babic said prisoners were beaten to death at a school in Bratunac in 1992.
The Hague Chronicle brings you the latest news from trials to Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
U ovom izdanju poslušajte izvještaje sa suđenja u predmetima: Grujić, Kos i ostali, Savo Babić, i Stanišić i Milošević. U rubrici Fokus objavljujemo tekst o usvajanju zakona o žrtvama torture u BiH.
The retrial of Momir Pelemis, who is charged with genocide against Srebrenica residents, begins with reading of the State Prosecutions indictment and presentation of introductory statements.
Former President of the Serb municipality of Milici Tomislav Savkic is another Radovan Karadzic Defence witness, who blames Bosnian Muslims for breakout of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while testifying before the International Tribunal at The Hague.
While cross-examining Edin Suljic, the Defence of Ratko Mladic denies the findings made by Sarajevo police about the first explosion at Markale market in February 1994, when more than 200 Sarajevo citizens were either killed or wounded.
As three Prosecution witnesses fail to appear at the trial of Zeljko Jukic, who is charged with crimes in the Prozor area, a status conference was held instead of their examination.
On the second day of the presentation of their appeals against a first instance verdict, under which four former members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad were sentenced to 142 years in prison for crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995, the Defence teams request the Court to quash the first instance verdict or order a retrial.
Testifying at a request by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a medical doctor confirms that Milun Kornjaca, who is charged with crimes in Cajnice, is capable of standing trial.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Vitomir Zepinic says that, on the eve of the war the indictee advocated for separation of Serbs from Bosniaks and Croats, but he referred to political and cultural, not physical separation.