Testifying in defence of Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb deputy interior minister Dragan Kijac said that in 1996 he gave fake identification cards to Srebrenica massacre suspects so they could flee to Serbia.
Dragan Kijac, the former chief of the National Security Service of Republika Srpska, testified in Ratko Mladic’s defense at the Hague Tribunal. Kijac said the National Security Service had received no information on crimes committed against Bosniaks in Prijedor during the Bosnian war.
Testifying in Ratko Mladic’s defense at the Hague, defense witness Savo Strbac said the defendant played a constructive role in the exchange of prisoners during the war in Croatia in 1991.
A defence witness at Ratko Mladic’s trial said he did not know in 1992 that the bodies of Bosniaks and Croats were being buried in mines he ran near Prijedor, but believes that local police did it.
During the cross-examination of ballistics expert Mile Poparic, Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial disputed claims that the Bosnian Serb Army didn’t kill a seven year old and his mother in the center of Sarajevo in 1994.
Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial said civilians and vehicles in Sarajevo were visible from Bosnian Serb sniper positions during the Bosnian war. Mile Poparic, a ballistics expert testifying for the defense, confirmed this statement.
The prosecutor at the trial of Ratko Mladic tried to undermine claims by a defence ballistics expert that Bosnian Serb Army snipers did not intentionally kill or wound civilians in besieged Sarajevo.
A ballistics expert testifying in Ratko Mladic’s defence denied that a bullet that killed a seven-year-old boy and wounded his mother in Sarajevo in 1994 was fired from Serb positions.
A defence ballistics expert told Ratko Mladic’s trial that the Bosnian Serb Army did not carry out sniper attacks on Sarajevo in 1994, accusing Bosniak forces of being responsible for the shootings.