Six former members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade denied capturing and forcibly detaining more than 800 Bosniak men and boys during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
As the trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic for genocide in Srebrenica continues, State Prosecution witnesses say that they participated in the digging and filling of graves.
Testifying at Ratko Mladics trial before The Hague Tribunal, anthropologist Freddy Peccerelli speaks about exhumations from mass graves in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the trial for genocide in Srebrenica a State Prosecution witness says that he did not want to go to Petkovci, because he assumed that murders could be committed, just like in Orahovac, where he was in July 1995.
As the trial of Franjo Pravdic, who is charged with crimes in Zepce, continues, witness Safet Halilovic says, testifying before the Cantonal Court in Zenica, that the Fejzic brothers were killed while digging trenches as prisoners.
In his written statement, which was included as evidence, witness RM-269 says that he was present in front of the school building in Orahovac, together with military policemen and other members of the Zvornik Brigade of VRS, on July 14, 1995.
During the continuation of Ratko Mladics trial, a protected Hague Prosecution witness says that he survived shooting of Srebrenica Bosniaks, including that of his father, in Orahovac village, near Zvornik in mid July 1995, adding that he was seven years old at the time.
Testifying at Ratko Mladics trial, former Chief Hague Prosecution Investigator Jean-Rene Ruez describes the discovery of several locations at which, according to the indictment and previous International Tribunals verdicts, Serb forces shot thousands of captured Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic launched a tirade at the judge after he was ejected from his Hague trial for calling a witness who survived the Srebrenica massacres a liar.
Until today seven members of the Zvornik Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska, VRS, were found guilty and sentenced to a total of 139 years in prison for killing more than 2,500 men and boys from the area of Srebrenica in July 1995.