City: Srebrenica Archives

A witness told the high-profile trial of the Bosnian Army’s former Srebrenica commander Naser Oric that the ex-general told him that he “cut the throat” of one of his alleged Serb victims.

Former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic’s defence filed an appeal against a court decision scheduling the presentation of closing statements in his trial for December this year.

Officials claimed that everything was calm but some locals were nervous as they continued to wait to find out whether a Serb or a Bosniak has won the mayoralty in the wartime flashpoint town. Although there is no final result yet from Sunday’s mayoral elections in Srebrenica, the Serb candidate, Mladen Grujicic, was keen to […]

The Hague Tribunal refused to consider a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence asking for the trial to be stopped because the court was systematically biased.

At a trial for crimes in Srebrenica, a prosecution witness said that the defendant, Bosnian Serb ex-officer Srecko Acimovic, refused to send troops to assist in the killings of Bosniaks in July 1995. Prosecution witness Dragan Stjepanovic told the state court on Wednesday that in July 1995 he was a commander of a division with the Second Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade and that defendant Acimovic was its chief.

At a Srebrenica genocide trial, a prosecution witness recalled how he survived the killings of Bosniaks in a meadow near the village of Orahovac in July 1995. Prosecution witness Mevludin Oric told the state court on Tuesday that the morning after the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, he started out with his father through the woods to Tuzla in a column of around 15,000 people who were fleeing the Bosnian Serb attack.

The UN war crimes tribunal is in the final stage of negotiations to set up information centres in Sarajevo and Srebrenica where the Hague-based court’s archives will be kept.

Haški tužioci zatražili su od sudija da odbace zahtjev Odbrane Ratka Mladića za obustavu postupka pred Haškim tribunalom zbog "sistemske pristrasnosti" ovog suda.

Former Bosnian Serb police official Ljubomir Borovcanin, who was jailed for 17 years for aiding the killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, was released after serving two-thirds of his sentence.