Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, defense witness Mile Dmicic said Alija Izetbegovic, the former Bosnian president, carried out the political aims described in his book, “Islamic Declaration.”
Presenting its closing statement, the state prosecution said it had demonstrated that Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian-Nikolae Vintila are guilty of war crimes committed against Serb civilians in Sarajevo in 1992.
Defence military expert Mitar Kovac told Ratko Mladic’s trial that the leading Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) caused the war because it wanted a Muslim-dominated state.
Cantonal prosecution witnesses testifying at the Veljko Papic trial said the defendant threatened civilians and forced them to join work squads. Papic has been charged with war crimes in the Grbavica neighbourhood of Sarajevo.
The state court fears that a new Bosnian Serb reform proposal is aimed at abolishing the state-level judiciary, but Republika Srpska says it just wants to clarify the division of authority between the state and Bosnia’s entities.
During the cross-examination of ballistics expert Mile Poparic, Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial disputed claims that the Bosnian Serb Army didn’t kill a seven year old and his mother in the center of Sarajevo in 1994.
The defense of Azra Miletic, a state court judge charged with bribery, requested the exemption of state court president Meddzida Kreso and judge Biljana Cukovic from her trial proceedings.
Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial said civilians and vehicles in Sarajevo were visible from Bosnian Serb sniper positions during the Bosnian war. Mile Poparic, a ballistics expert testifying for the defense, confirmed this statement.
The prosecutor at the trial of Ratko Mladic tried to undermine claims by a defence ballistics expert that Bosnian Serb Army snipers did not intentionally kill or wound civilians in besieged Sarajevo.