The trial of nine former members of the police and the Bosnian Serb Army has begun at the Bosnian state court. The defendants are charged with war crimes in the Zvornik area.
Testifying at the trial of six former members of Bosnian Serb forces, a prosecution witness said the village of Irice was searched in 1992, and a group of men from the village were abducted. Their bodies were found later on.
After the European Union halted its funding for war crimes, some prosecutors have been left with no salaries and a few assistants have already lost their jobs. War crimes investigations have been stalled as a result.
The presentation of evidence at the Oliver Krsmanovic trial ended with the screening of a documentary on the abduction of civilians from Sjeverin in Serbia. Krsmanovic has been charged with war crimes in Visegrad.
The first prosecution witnesses to testify at the Mile Pujlic trial said their family members were abducted from their homes in the Mostar area in May 1993 by Bosnian Croat soldiers.
At a trial for war crimes in Srebrenik, a state prosecution witness said he was forced to endure a fake execution and other forms of abuse during his detention in Rapatnica in June 1992.