A prosecution witness at the war crimes trial of Bosniak commander Naser Oric, accused of killing three Serbs, testified that Serb troops were captured by the defendant in July 1992.
The Hague Tribunal has legal precedents for some of the charges against Radovan Karadzic, but allegations that genocide was committed in 1992 and UN peacekeepers were taken hostage have never been proven by the court.
Testifying at a trial dealing with the Srebrenica genocide, additional defense witnesses said that defendants Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic were at a forward command post and on the frontline during an attack in July 1995.
A state prosecution witness testified at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb police officials charged with participating in the Srebrenica genocide. The witness, Mile Vuksic said he guarded buses in Bratunac, where Bosniaks from Srebrenica were transported.
Problems with getting witnesses to court have reduced the amount of time that former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic’s defence has to prepare its closing statements at the Hague Tribunal.
According to the charges, Stanisic was the commander of the Sixth Battalion of the Zvornicka Brigade with the Bosnian Serb Army and Milosevic was his deputy.
Testifying at the trial of five defendants charged with participating in the Srebrenica genocide, a prosecution witness and former military policeman said he saw dead bodies in Bratunac after residents of Srebrenica had been brought to a school building on July 13, 1995.
The first protected witness at the war crimes trial of Naser Oric said that he feared the Bosnian Army ex-commander, who he alleged killed Serb prisoners in Srebrenica in 1992.
The state prosecution has asked the state court to repeal a verdict acquitting Aleksandar Cvetkovic of charges of participating in genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. The defense objected to the proposal.
Testifying at the trial of two defendants charged with participating in the Srebrenica genocide, an additional defense witness said defendant Ostoja Stanisic wasn’t in Petkovci in July 1995, the period of his alleged crimes.