Radoša Milutinović, Author at Detektor

Testifying at the Hague trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a Serbian ex-policeman admitted personally setting houses on fire in a Bosniak village in 1993. Testifying as a protected prosecution witness, the former Serbian policeman told Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that he was involved in a “clean-up” operation in villages near the small town of Skelani in eastern Bosnia in March 1993, when houses were torched.

Former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence denied that the Red Berets unit was controlled by the service when it allegedly committed crimes during the Bosnian war in 1993. Jovica Stanisic’s defence lawyer told his trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that although the Red Berets unit operated in Eastern Bosnia in March 1993, it was under Interior Ministry command, and not controlled by the State Security Service, which the defendant headed at the time.

A former policeman told the Hague trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the service’s Red Berets unit expelled Bosniaks from eastern Bosnia and burned their villages.

Prosecutors urged judges at the UN court to reject former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeal and increase his sentence to life imprisonment for genocide and other wartime crimes.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic is starting his appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes at the UN court in The Hague, claiming his trial was flawed. Appeals in Radovan Karadzic’s case are being heard by the UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Monday and Tuesday, with the former […]

A prosecution witness told the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serbian Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniaks and Croat captives in the town of Doboj in 1992. Prosecution witness Edin Hadzovic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniak and Croat captives in Doboj on July 12, 1992.

The prosecution at the UN tribunal in The Hague appealed against Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s verdict, calling for him to be convicted of genocide in five more Bosnian municipalities in 1992. The prosecution on Thursday announced its appeal against the first-instance verdict in Ratko Mladic case, calling on the UN court to further convict him of genocide against Bosniaks and Croats in five more municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Trial of Jovica Stanisic, former chief of Serbian security service, SDB, sees fresh arguments over whether its units aided the Bosnian Serb army in the ethnic cleansing of eastern Bosnia.

The defence for Jovica Stanisic denied that the Red Berets unit was associated with the Serbian State Security Service, SDB – while a Hague prosecution expert witness maintained that they were the Serbian service’s special forces.

A lawyer for former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic told his trial that the prosecution’s expert had not presented any evidence confirming ties between Serbian paramilitaries in Bosnia and the Serbian security service.

Radoša Milutinović

Serbian Policeman Admits Burning Homes in Bosnia

Serbian Security Chief Denies Controlling ‘Red Berets’ Unit

Serb Ex-Policeman: Belgrade’s ‘Red Berets’ Expelled Bosniaks

Hague Prosecutors Demand Life Sentence for Karadzic

Radovan Karadzic Appeals ‘Unjust’ Genocide Conviction

Serbian Red Berets ‘Killed Civilian Captives’ in Bosnia

Prosecutors Demand Additional Genocide Conviction for Mladic

Red Berets’ Role in Bosnia Disputed at Stanisic Trial

Stanisic Lawyers Duel Over Red Berets’ Links to Serbia

Stanisic Defence Dismisses Paramilitary Links to SDB

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