An inter-governmental protocol on investigating and documenting sexual violence in conflicts was promoted in Sarajevo on Wednesday with a message that it is vital to ensure there is no climate of impunity over such crimes.
On January 30 the Appellate Chamber of the Hague Tribunal is due to pronounce a verdict against Vujadin Popovic and four other indictees, who were sentenced, under a first instance verdict, for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has quashed a verdict under which Milorad Trbic was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the genocide in Srebrenica.
The Defence of Ratko Mladic includes, as evidence, some documents referring to processing of members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, for having committed crimes against the Bosniak and Croat population during the war.
Testifying in defence of Vitomir Rackovic, witnesses say that they were on combat lines at Zaglavak, near Visegrad, with the indictee from the beginning of June to mid-July 1992.
The trial of Oliver Krsmanovic for crimes in Visegrad has been postponed due to technical problems in reproducing audio recordings of Defence witnesses testimonies.
A former Serb police chief told Ratko Mladics trial that he reported incidents at the Susica detention camp in Vlasenica, where 150 Bosniak prisoners are estimated to have been killed.
In the week ahead the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, is due to pronounce a verdict against Vehid Subotic, who is charged with crimes in Dusina village, near Zenica.