Zdravko Salipur, a former member of the Serb Democratic Party, testified in defense of Ratko Mladic at the Hague Tribunal. Salipur claimed that Sarajevo was divided during the Bosnian war, but wasnt under siege.
A defense witness testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said the Bosnian Serb Army used force to implement the military aim of separating Serbs from Bosniaks and Croats in the Krajina area.
As the latest hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial Hague Tribunal prosecutors argued that the Bosnian Serb Army captured and deported non-Serb civilians from Bosanska Krajina in the spring and summer of 1992. Defense witness Bosko Kelecevic denied any knowledge of their expulsion.
The Ratko Mladic trial continues with testimony from defense witness Bosko Kelecevic, who denied that the Bosnian Serb Army persecuted non-Serbs in the Krajina region in 1992.
A Defence witness told the trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic that the official army and police of Republika Srpska had no connection to the paramilitary formations.
Testifying in defense of Ratko Mladic, Milutin Misic, a member of the Board of the Directors of the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, denied the accuracy of lists of missing persons who disappeared after the fall of Srebrenica.
The presentation of evidence on the Tomasica mass grave ended at the Ratko Mladic trial in the Hague. The Tomasica mass grave, near Prijedor, has revealed the mortal remains of several hundred victims allegedly killed by the Bosnian Serb Army.
A Hague Tribunal prosecution expert said that victims exhumed from the Tomasica and Jakarina Kosa mass graves near Prijedor were killed in attacks listed in Ratko Mladics indictment.
Forensics expert Ewa Tabeau testified at the Ratko Mladic trial, describing her findings at the Tomasica mass grave near Prijedor. She confirmed that 385 bodies were exhumed from the grave and that the victims were primarily Bosniaks who went missing in the summer of 1992 in the Prijedor area.
A prosecution expert told the trial of Ratko Mladic that around 300 victims found in the Tomasica mass grave near Prijedor were not wearing uniforms and many had been shot in the head.