The former chief of security at the main headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ljubisa Beara, has died in a German prison where he was serving a life term for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
At a Srebrenica genocide trial, a prosecution witness said he transported Bosniak men from a stadium in Kasaba to a community centre in Pileca, where hundreds were later killed.
A defence witness said former policeman Ivica Cutura, who is on trial for the murders, inhumane treatment and unlawful detention of Bosniak civilians, had helped him and could not be guilty.
A medical report rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s claims that there were abnormally high levels of cancer among war crimes defendants held at the UN court’s detention centre.
A prosecution witness testified that Serbs in the village of Zalazje in the Srebrenica area surrendered after an attack by the Bosnian Army led by commander Naser Oric in July 1992.
Prosecution witness Milan Jeremic told the state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday at the trial of three former Bosnian Army soldiers that Serbs in Zalazje surrendered after the village was attacked.
At the trial of Naser Oric and Sabahudin Muhic, a defence witness testified that another Bosniak commander said he took revenge on a Serb judge who the defendants are accused of killing.
In closing arguments in the trial of ex-soldier Marko Milosevic, his defence lawyer said the prosecution had not proved that the defendant was guilty of involvement in killing hundreds of Srebrenica Bosniaks.
Testifying at the trial of five ex-policemen for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, a prosecution witness said a Bosnian Serb soldier killed around ten men in a warehouse in Konjevic Polje in July 1995.
Prosecution witness Rodoljub Milanovic told the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday that a uniformed soldier shot the Bosniaks dead in Konjevic Polje on July 12, 1995.
The prosecution in Sarajevo charged former Bosnian Serb soldier Svetozar Kosoric with being part of a joint criminal enterprise aimed at exterminatinge Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Svetozar Kosoric was charged on Friday with having assisted participants in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at exterminating the Bosniak population of Srebrenica by means of murder, forcible resettlement and the infliction of serious physical and mental injuries.
Defence and prosecution lawyers made their final comments in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander for genocide and other wartime crimes and judges adjourned to start considering their verdict.