Testifying at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, a State Prosecution witness says that Goran Saric made a speech to members of his unit prior to their departure to the Bratunac and Srebrenica area.
Five former Bosnian Serb policemen were given reduced sentences of 20 years each for aiding genocide in Srebrenica following a retrial after their previous convictions were annulled.
As the trial of Goran Saric, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, continues, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, presents video recordings of the happenings in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Testifying at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, a State Prosecution witness says that he saw a group of Muslims being escorted towards Kravica in July 1995.
At the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, a Bosnian prosecution witness said that in July 1995 he covered bodies of men with hay in front of the hangar in Kravica.
The Bosnian state court rejected a request for the retrial of Mendeljev Djuric, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide in Srebrenica.
Testifying at the trial of Goran Saric for genocide in Srebrenica, a State Prosecution witness says that the Special Brigade of Republika Srpska, RS police guarded the road between Bratunac and Konjevic Polje in mid July 1995, because a breakthrough by Srebrenica residents was expected.
Sarajevo prosecutors decided not to ask Belgrade to launch two cases against former Bosnian Serb policemen accused of involvement in the Srebrenica massacres.
An order from the Minister of Internal Affairs came, saying that the Company should be deployed to Bratunac and put under Borovcanins command, said witness Luka Bogdanovic, who was Chief of the Police Section with the Public Safety Center in Zvornik at that time.
The Defence of five indictees, who were released after the verdicts against them for assisting in the Srebrenica genocide was quashed, request the Court to reduce their sentence to between five and 15 years, while the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requests maximal imprisonment sentences.