On the second day of closing statements at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the prosecution said the former Bosnian Serb military chief praised and promoted officers involved in ethnic cleansing and murder.
In the first day of closing arguments in Ratko Mladic’s trial, prosecutors said the former Bosnian Serb military commander played a crucial role in a brutal plan to ‘cleanse’ areas of Bosnia of non-Serbs.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal challenging the Hague Tribunal’s verdict sentencing him to 40 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.
After accusations of genocide, ethnic cleansing, brutal detentions and a punishing siege, lawyers in the four-year trial of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic begin to present their closing arguments next week.
The prosecution in the genocide and war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic will begin its closing statements at the Hague Tribunal on December 5.
Four-and-a-half years after the start of Mladic’s trial, the prosecution and defence are to sum up their arguments starting next week, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said on Wednesday.
The UN war crimes court will sign an agreement on Tuesday to set up an information centre at Sarajevo’s city hall offering access to all public documents from the Hague Tribunal’s trials.
Travelers to Europe from non-EU Balkan states will have to undergo new online security checks before they can proceed, if the Commission’s plan is adopted.
The Hague Tribunal has launched a medical investigation after war crimes defendant Radovan Karadzic claimed that cancer and other malignant diseases were rife in the UN detention unit.
Legal experts said that all allegations by war crimes witnesses who claimed investigators put pressure on them to incriminate suspects must be properly probed and new measures put in place to prevent threats.