At the trial of Ratko Mladic, prosecutors tried to undermine claims by an expert witness who testified that thousands of Bosniaks were killed in fighting while escaping from Srebrenica, not in massacres.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of Bosnian Serb police forces, a protected state prosecution witness said he saw a convoy of buses filled with Srebrenica civilians in front of the Zvornik police station mid-July 1995. He said the civilians travelled in the convoy with their heads down.
After a one month recess, the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic continued at the Hague Tribunal. At today’s hearing, prosecutors contested testimony given by a defense expert who testified on the situation of missing persons after the fall of Srebrenica in 1995.
While testifying at a trial dealing with the Srebrenica genocide, a protected state prosecution witness identified Ostoja Stanisic as the man who mistreated him during his detention in a school building in Petkovci after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Former Srebrenica commander Oric went on trial in Sarajevo for war crimes, accused of being responsible for killing three Serbs in 1992 - a case which has angered the country’s Bosniaks.
The state court has reduced the sentence against Radomir Vukovic from 31 to 20 years in prison by applying the criminal code of the former Yugoslavia, which allows for more lenient sentencing. Vukovic was found guilty of participating in the Srebrenica genocide.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of Bosnian Serb police forces charged with genocide in Srebrenica, a state prosecution witness described the activities of the First Company of the Zvornik public safety center in Potocari and Sandici in July 1995.
A status conference was held today in the case of Goran Saric, who’s been charged with participating in the Srebrenica genocide. The state prosecution said it would most probably know which foreign citizens with lifted UN immunity would agree to testify in the next two weeks.