The presentation of evidence at the Gligor Begovic trial has been completed. The defense said it had no further evidence in response to further revisions to the indictment. Begovic has been charged with war crimes in Bijeljina.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against four suspects, charging them with crimes against humanity in the Janja area in the municipality of Bijeljina from 1992 to 1994.
State prosecution witnesses testifying at the Dragan Cobic trial said the defendant and others took their brother, Faruk Bilalic, away from their family home.
Testifying in his own defense, Gligor Begovic told the court he beat detainees held in the Batkovic detention center when ordered to do so, but didn’t sexually abuse any detainees.
Ron Haviv, an American photographer who documented some of the most brutal murders of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, believes that life in this country is still intolerable and disappointing.
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.
Witnesses testifying at the Dragan Cobic trial said they heard about the 1992 murder of the two victims in the case after the war, when they were brought to the police for questioning.
A defense witness testifying at the Gligor Begovic trial said the defendant was a conscript of the Yugoslav People’s Army at the Batkovic collection centre in the municipality of Bijeljina.
A district prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Djoko Pajic, Petar Dmitrovic, Djordje Krstic and Ljubomir Misic said guards physically abused detainees held at the Sabirni Centar detention camp in Bijeljina.