As the trial of Ratko Mladic continues, the Defence tries to deny the indictees responsibility for crimes in detention camps in the vicinity of Prijedor, where thousands of Bosniaks were held in the spring and summer of 1992.
Testifying at Ratko Mladics trial, a Hague Prosecution military expert says that, in May 1992 the indictee was aware of the fact that the separation of Serbs from Bosniaks and Croats, as a Serbs military goal, would represent genocide, so he warned political leaders about it.
Testifying in his defence about crimes in Prijedor, indictee Dragomir Soldat says that, on the day when crimes were committed in Carakovo village he drove his cousin to a bus station, as she was supposed to travel to Belgrade, adding that nothing unusual happened in the village the following day.
As confirmed by The Hague Tribunal, Tribunal President Theodor Meron approves the release of Darko Mrdja after having served two thirds of 17-year imprisonment to which he was sentenced for having committed murders at Koricanske Stijene.
Testifying in defence of Dragomir Soldat at the trial for crimes in Carakovo village, near Prijedor, a witness says that the indictee drove her to a bus station in Prijedor so that she could travel to Belgrade.
The remains of the wartime victims, believed to be Bosniaks and Croats killed in 1992, have been found in the ongoing exhumation of the mass grave at the Tomasica mines near Prijedor.
At the trial of Ratko Mladic, the Prosecution expert witness Andras Riedlmayer said that during the war in Bosnia, Serb forces damaged and destroyed almost all the mosques and Catholic churches in the territory under their control.
At the trial for the murder in the village of Carakovo near Prijedor, witnesses for the defence said that in summer 1992 they were near this village, but saw nothing unusual.
At the trial of Bosnian Serb fighters for murders in the village of Carakovo near Prijedor in 1992, witnesses testified that one defendant was a professional policeman who wasnt involved in any fighting.
Bosnias appeals court upheld the verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb policeman Sasa Zecevic to 23 years in jail for the murder of around 200 civilians at Koricanske Stijene in 1992.