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.
The Defence of indictee Zoran Ilic presents material evidence in an attempt to prove that the attack by the Republika Srpska Army, VRS in July 1995 was not aimed against civilians, but members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Srebrenica.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, former journalist from Belgrade Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac denies having told a London Independent reporter in July 1995 that hewas in big trouble, because the indictee was mad at him for having played adocumentary about Srebrenica, depicting bodies of Bosniaks.
Bozidar Kuvelja, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, is negotiating a guilt admission agreement with the State Prosecution, one year after the beginning of the trial.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Srebrenica, Defence witness Srbislav Davidovic says that he could not foresee the killing of Srebrenica residents in July 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic at The Hague, Prosecution witness Christine Schmitz says that , one day after the occupation of Srebrenica in July 1995 the Republika Srpska Army, VRS deported Bosniak women, children and the elderly from Potocari, after having separated able-bodied men from them.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Srebrenica, three Defence witnesses say that they saw indictee Zoran Ilic in Bratunac in July 1995, adding that the indictee attended, along with other policemen, a farewell party for his brother, who was about to start his regular military service.
Testifying at the trial of Bozidar Kuvelja, who is indicted for genocide in Srebrenica, a Defence witness says that he found out that the unit to which the indictee belonged was present in the Srebrenica area in 1995.
The trial of Radovan Karadzic at The Hague continues with the examination of Jean-Rene Rueza, who conducted an investigation from 1995 to 2001, into mass murders that were committed after the occupation of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.
As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, the Hague Prosecution plays a recording made in July 1995, depicting several tens of bodies of dead Bosniaks in front of a warehouse in Kravica village, near Srebrenica, bursts of bullets being fired from automatic guns and Serb soldiers standing around the corpses.