At the trial of two Bosnian Serb officers accused of participating in the 1995 Srebrenica massacres, a villager testified about the killings of prisoners near his house.
Testifying at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, a State Prosecution witness says that Drago Nikolic and Milorad Trbic visited a school building in Petkovci and a nearby dam, where about one thousand Bosniak prisoners were killed, in mid-July 1995.
A Prosecution witness says at the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, who are charged with genocide against Srebrenica residents, that she did not utter the sentences mentioned in her statement given during the investigation in 2010.
At the trial for genocide in Srebrenica witness for the State Prosecution gave different answers when asked whether volunteers reported to indictee Ostoja Stanisic to kill prisoners in Petkovci, a village close to Zvornik in July of 1995.
Testifying at the trial for the Srebrenica genocide, a prosecution expert witness said that the traces of blood were found in the Cultural Center and two school buildings in the village of Petkovci, near Zvornik, where Bosniak men were held in July 1995.
The defendants, Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, could have made sure that equipment, staff and facilities in the Zvornik area were not used for murder of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, said the expert witness Richard Butler.
The trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, who are charged with genocide in Srebrenica, is due to begin on October 9 with the reading of the indictment and presentation of introductory arguments by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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.
On the second day of its opening arguments, the Hague prosecution said it would prove that Ratko Mladic was on the ground and personally involved in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995.