Judicial institutions were urged to make changes to ensure fairness after a European human rights court ruling led to the overturning of verdicts against several convicted war criminals.
Presenting his findings and opinion about the cause of death of six people in the Bosanski Brod area, court medicine expert Zeljko Karan at the trial says that those victims died violently due to being hit by a projectile, which was most probably fired from an automatic gun.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, his former advisor Bogdan Subotic says that the indictee would have never advisedly signed a directive, ordering the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, to create an unbearable situation of insecurity without hope in life and survival in Srebrenica.
As the trial of Milorad Tadic, known as Brk, before the District Court in Banja Luka continues, statements given by two Defence witnesses were read. The witnesses said that, while they were detained in Omarska detention camp, they saw Sejad Sivac being taken away.
Testifying in defence of Milinko Konjevic before the District Court in Banja Luka, a witness says that nobody told him that the indictee killed Remzija Hajdarevic in Kozarska Dubica in the summer of 1992.
Representatives of the Association of Detainees of Tuzla Canton say that they are facing numerous problems relating to lawsuits for compensation of non-material damage, which they have filed with courts in Republika Srpska, RS, adding that their suits are being rejected on the grounds of statute of limitations.