A ballistics expert testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said modified air-bombs used by the Bosnian Serb Army during attacks on Sarajevo were precise and only targeted military targets.
At today’s hearing of the Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian-Nicolae Vintila trial, court expert Zorica Lazarevic was cross-examined. Lazarevic said based on her expertise and statements given by injured parties, she concluded that prisoners held at the Viktor Bubanj military barracks in the Sarajevo area suffered greatly.
Testifying for Ratko Mladic, ballistic expert Zorica Subotic said that the killings in the Markale market in 1994 were not caused by a mortar missile but by a stationary explosive.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has asked the UN to investigate an alleged increase in the number of malignant diseases among defendants in the Hague tribunal.
Ballistic expert Zorica Subotic continued her testimony at the Ratko Mladic trial. Subotic disputed allegations that the Bosnian Serb Army fired mortars which killed civilians in Sarajevo.
Judge Azra Miletic appeared before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and pleaded not guilty to charges of accepting a bribe. Defendants Senad Sabic and Ramo Brkic, whom the indictment charges with having given the bribe, pleaded not guilty as well.
A defence ballistics expert told Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial that Bosnian Serb forces did not fire mortar bombs that killed dozens of civilians in Sarajevo in 1993 and 1994.
Defence ballistics expert Zorica Subotic told Ratko Mladic’s trial that the Bosnian Serb Army was not responsible for two mortar attacks in Sarajevo that killed dozens of civilians in 1992 and 1993.
A former UNPROFOR officer testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said it couldn’t be determined who fired the mine-thrower grenade that killed 200 civilians in the Markale Market attack in Sarajevo in 1994.