Testifying in defense of Ratko Mladic, ballistics expert Mile Poparic said the Bosnian Serb Army couldn’t have been responsible for Sarajevo sniper attacks listed in the indictment.
At the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, a defence witness said that Bosniak civilians left Srebrenica voluntarily after the town fell to the Bosnian Serb Army in July 1995.
Serbian forensic expert Dusan Dunjic, who was scheduled to testify in Ratko Mladic’s defence, was found dead in a hotel in the Netherlands but the cause is not yet known.
The testimony of Dragan Kijac, a former security officer for the Bosnian Serb Army, was interrupted at the beginning of today’s hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial. When the hearing resumed after a break, the defendant was no longer in the courtroom.
Dragan Kijac, the former head of the Bosnian Serb Army’s intelligence agency, told the Hague Tribunal that he only heard about the Srebrenica killings in 2000.
A former British UN peacekeeper testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said his command widely believed that Bosnian Serb forces weren’t responsible for the attack on the Markale Market in Sarajevo in 1994.
Dragan Kijac, the former chief of the National Security Service of Republika Srpska, testified at today’s hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial. During his testimony he said he’d never seen any documents issued by the National Security Service regarding the deportation of the non-Serb population during the Bosnian war.
Ratko Mladic’s ballistic expert Zorica Subotic concluded her testimony on shelling incidents in Sarajevo, after more than a week of testifying at the Hague Tribunal.
Hague prosecutors challenged claims made by ballistics expert Zorica Subotic at the Ratko Mladic trial. Subotic said modified air bombs fired by the Bosnian Serb Army on Sarajevo in 1994 and 1995 were precise and only hit military targets.
A ballistics expert testifying in defense of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic said the explosion in Sarajevo’s Markale Market during the winter of 1994 was a “well-organized conspiracy.”