City: Branjevo


1. August 2013.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, Franc Kos says that, following the shooting of hundreds of Srebrenica Muslims on Branjevo farm, Lieutenant Colonel Ljubisa Beara praised the crime perpetrators in a café “for doing an excellent job” and promised that “the state would be grateful to them.”


31. July 2013.
Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, presents Franc Kos as Defence witness before The Hague Tribunal. Kos confirms that, in his capacity as member of the RS Army, he participated in the shooting of hundreds of Srebrenica Muslims on Branjevo military farm, near Zvornik, in July 1995.


17. July 2013.
The Defence of Ratko Mladic suggests at his trial before the Hague Tribunal that, during the offensive on Srebrenica in July 1995 Republika Srpska, RS President Radovan Karadzic “had direct contacts” with Radislav Krstic, Commander of the Drina Corps with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who commanded the attack.


2. July 2013.
Prosecution witness Drazen Erdemovic confirms at Ratko Mladic’s trial that he participated, in his capacity as member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, in the shooting of between 1,000 and 1,200 Muslim men from Srebrenica in July 1995.


24. June 2013.
A former intelligence officer with the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says, testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, that he first heard about the shooting of thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, which happened in July 1995, at the end of that year or in 1996, although he was present in the enclave two days after its fall.


12. April 2013.
Testifying at Ratko Mladic’s trial, former Chief Hague Prosecution Investigator Jean-Rene Ruez describes the discovery of several locations at which, according to the indictment and previous International Tribunal’s verdicts, Serb forces shot thousands of captured Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995.