At the trial of five indictees charged with the murder of civilians at Koricanske stijene, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina presents 24 pieces of material evidence.
The village of Zecovi, situated near the town of Prijedor, is reachable by unpaved road. Dense forests and meadows dotted with white flocks of sheep and the occasional sound of hammering in the homes of returnees give hope that there is still life in this small hamlet.
Protected Prosecution witness KO18, who survived the shooting at Koricanske stijene in August 1992, recognized indictee Skrbic in the courtroom, saying he was one of the soldiers dressed in blue camouflage uniforms.
The trial of five indictees charged with crimes committed at Koricanske stijene in August 1992 has been postponed after a protected Prosecution witness failed to appear in the courtroom.
The site of an infamous massacre of 200 men in 1992 is to be reexamined. But after 18 years of waiting, relatives fear they may never recover the remains of their loved ones.
Asima Memics son, Asmir, boarded a bus from Prijedor to Travniik as part of an exchange in July 1992. He never arrived, and only a single limb has ever been recovered.
Several hundred former detainees from Prijedor and their families have gathered in Omarska to commemorate August 6th, the day when the disassembly of this camp began 18 years ago.
Legislation needed to curb the construction of hate-filled monuments, which deny known facts about the conflict and stir up ethnic tension rather than honouring innocent victims.
Momcilo Mandic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, that paramilitary formations were not controlled by the Serbian army or politicians in 1992, adding that the central government of Republika Srpska, RS, was not in charge of municipal crisis committees.