A prosecution witness said he was beaten and humiliated while he was being detained in a police building in Trnovo, where he saw one of the trial defendants, Edhem Godinjak.
Thousands of people gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 21st anniversary of Europe’s worst atrocity since the Holocaust and bury 127 more Bosniak victims of the massacres.
The Bosnian state court and the Hague Tribunal have sentenced 38 people to a total of 637 years in prison - plus three life sentences - for the atrocities committed 21 years ago against Srebrenica’s Bosniaks.
Walking the forest paths each day in the Bratunac area, where thousands of Srebrenica victims were killed in July 1995, Ramiz Nukic has found the bones of more than 200 people.
Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, a woman whose two sons were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 remembers the day she saw them for the last time.
The trial of Bosniak wartime commander Naser Oric for crimes against Serb prisoners of war in the areas of Srebrenica and Bratunac was stopped because of the unacceptable behaviour of a prosecution witness.
A witness at the trial of Mirko Vrucinic says Serbs separated group of Bosniaks on the bridge and took them away, never to be seen again
Testifying at the trial of Mirko Vrucinic for crimes in the Sanski Most area, a prosecution witness said a group of between 20 and 30 Bosniaks who “are not alive today” were separated from the others at Vrhpoljski bridge and taken away.
A prosecution witness said she was told that her husband, one of former Bosnian Army commander Naser Oric’s alleged victims, was shot through the mouth in a trench.
In order to prevent potential unrest, the trial of a Serb victims’ association leader for inciting hatred by describing the Srebrenica genocide as “God’s justice” will be held behind closed doors.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague rejected a request from the defence of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic to grant him temporary release.