After an OSCE appointed expert judge, Joanna Korner, sharply criticized the work of the Bosnian prosecution on war crimes, its spokesman accused her of an attack on the judiciary.
A prosecution witness said she was told that her husband, one of former Bosnian Army commander Naser Oric’s alleged victims, was shot through the mouth in a trench.
The Belgrade trial of Novak Djukic, already convicted in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on the town of Tuzla, was delayed until further notice because court transcripts haven’t arrived.
Almost a quarter-century on from the attack on the JNA convoy in Sarajevo, relatives of those killed in it feel bitter that so little has been done to determine responsibility.
Prosecution witnesses at the war crimes trial of the former Bosnian Army commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, said he captured Serbs then ordered his troops to torch a village in 1992.
During Radovan Karadzic’s marathon trial, the prosecution brought witnesses to prove he was guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, while testimony from the defence disputed the crimes or tried to show he wasn’t responsible.
Next week’s verdict in the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic will be a judicial landmark but cannot heal the lasting divisions of wartime.
The first protected witness at the war crimes trial of Naser Oric said that he feared the Bosnian Army ex-commander, who he alleged killed Serb prisoners in Srebrenica in 1992.
The first protected witness testifying at the trial of former Bosnian Army commander Naser Oric said he recalled seeing the defendant killing three Serb prisoners near Srebrenica in 1992.
On March 31, the Hague Tribunal will hand down a verdict against Vojislav Seselj, the president of the Serbian Radical Party. Seselj, who is currently defending himself at liberty, has been charged with war crimes committed against Bosniaks and Croats in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina.