A defence witness at Bosnian Serbmilitary leader Ratko Mladics trial said that a massacre of prisoners nearSrebrenica in July 1995 happened because of an attempted escape.
Prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial tried to prove before the Hague tribunal that Milenko Karisik, a witness for the defense, knew about the capture and killings of thousands of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica in the summer of 1995. In his previous testimony, Karisik had said he wasnt aware of the Srebrenica killings.
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, the Deputy Internal Affairs Minister of Republika Srpska Milenko Karisik denied any knowledge of the capture, persecution, and murder of Bosnian Muslims after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995.
A defence witness for Ratko Mladic told his trial that while Serbian forces committed crimes against Muslims and Croats in Priedor in 1992, they were not the work of the Bosnian Serb Army.
A defence witness told the trial of Ratko Mladic that criminals from outside the area committed crimes against Bosniaks and Croats in 1992 in Sanski Most, not the Bosnian Serb Army.
A defence witness told Ratko Mladics war crimes trial in The Hague that the Trnopolje detention centre near Prijedor was not a prison camp in 1992 but a place of refuge for Bosniaks.
A defence witness told the Hague Tribunal that former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic ordered his men to ensure the safety of Bosniak prisoners from Srebrenica in July 1995.
A former Bosnian Serb soldier told the Hague Tribunal that Mladic never made a hand gesture indicating that all captives from Srebrenica should be killed.
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, former Bosnian Serb Army officer Milovan Simic said Mladic told him in the summer of 1995 that 2000 Bosniak Muslim prisoners were killed in Srebrenica without his knowledge.
Testifying in Ratko Mladic's defence, a former Bosnian Serb army officer admitted that non-Serbs were persecuted and killed in 1992 in Doboj, but blamed local police and paramilitaries.