21. November 2017.
During a four-year trial, the Hague Tribunal has heard powerful and strongly-contested arguments about whether Ratko Mladic is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity or whether he simply defended Bosnia’s Serbs.
Radoša Milutinović
9. November 2017.
Former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that he never controlled the Scorpions paramilitary unit which committed crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. November 2017.
Ratko Mladic’s defence has asked the Hague Tribunal to hold an urgent session to discuss the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s poor state of health ahead of his trial verdict on November 22.
Mladic’s defence lawyers have repeated their request for the Hague Tribunal to postpone the pronouncement of the first-instance verdict on November 22 until it has been determined whether the former Bosnian Serb military chief is mentally and physically capable of participating in his trial, and have demanded an urgent hearing.
8. November 2017.
At the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, prosecutors played a video of paramilitaries from the Scorpions unit murdering men from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Prosecutors played the video of the six Bosniak civilians’ murders, filmed by the Scorpions themselves, at Stanisic and Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday.
7. November 2017.
An ex-member of the Scorpions told the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the wartime paramilitary unit was “sponsored” by Belgrade.
2. November 2017.
The Hague Tribunal prosecution called on the judges to reject a request from former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic’s defence to postpone the verdict in his trial because of his poor health.
18. October 2017.
The trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic was told that fighters allegedly controlled by the defendants detained and killed non-Serbs at a base in Croatia run by paramilitary boss Arkan.
17. October 2017.
At the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a prosecution witness said that paramilitary boss Arkan’s unit - allegedly controlled by the defendants - murdered Croats in 1991.
A protected prosecution witness codenamed RFJ-157 testified at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that a Serbian paramilitary unit led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, committed murders of Croats in the Eastern Slavonia area of Croatia in 1991.
4. October 2017.
A Croatian official told the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Zagreb is still searching for people who disappeared as a result of Serb forces’ attacks in 1991.
Visnja Bilic, who deals with missing persons issues at the Croatian war veterans ministry, told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that most of the 929 people who are still missing from the war in Croatia disappeared in 1991.
4. October 2017.
A prosecution expert told the trial of former Serbian state security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the majority of people displaced from war-affected areas of Croatia were Croats.
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