On Wednesday, September 23, the first state prosecution witness is expected to testify at the trial of Jovan Popovic, who has been charged with crimes committed in the Visegrad area in the summer of 1992.
A Canadian intelligence officer testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said there was a widespread belief amongst UNPROFOR members that Bosnian Army forces were responsible for the 1994 bombardment of the Markale Market in Sarajevo.
A former UN military observer testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said he discovered a Bosnian Army mortar position believed to be a source of the grenade attack on the Markale Market in Sarajevo in 1995.
Tomislav Kovac, the former minister of internal affairs of Republika Srpska, was expected to testify at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb fighters. His testimony was postponed when the state prosecution announced that Kovac was under investigation for the same crimes as the defendants.
According to the current law on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC), members can work with the council and still keep their other jobs within the judicial system. This has come to light with the opening of four senior management positions.
If a new law on the rights of Republika Srprska representatives who served from 1991-1996 is adopted, three war crime convicts and a war crime suspect will receive payments from the budget of Republika Srpska.
A former UN peacekeeping officer testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said the Bosnian Army was most probably responsible for the Markale massacre in Sarajevo in 1994, in which 66 people died and 140 more were wounded.
A team of mental health experts testifying at the Milkan Gojkovic trial said the injured party in the case suffers from severe physical and psychological trauma from the defendant’s alleged rape.