The trial of Bosniak wartime commander Naser Oric for crimes against Serb prisoners of war in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas will begin on January 26 next year.
At an appeals hearing at the Bosnian state court, both the prosecution and the defense proposed that Radomir Vukovic be resentenced according to the Criminal Code of Yugoslavia, which hands down more favourable verdicts for guilty parties in war crimes.
An expert witness testifying in Ratko Mladic’s defence sought to prove that hundreds of Bosniaks from Srebrenica killed in an ambush by Bosnian Serb troops were falsely presented as victims of massacres.
Testifying in defence of Ratko Mladic, an expert witness sought to prove that hundreds of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were killed in an ambush by the Bosnian Serb Army, not in organised massacres.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of Bosnian Serb police forces charged with genocide in Srebrenica, a state prosecution witness said he guarded the road to Sandici where Bosniak civilians surrendered to Bosnian Serb forces on July 13, 1995.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against Srecko Acimovic, the former commander of the Second Battalion of the Zvornicka Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, charging him with genocide in Srebrenica.
Former Bosnian Serb policeman Milan Bogdanovic was arrested on suspicion that he was involved in crimes against humanity in the Srebrenica area in the summer of 1995.
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, defense expert Dusan Pavlovic claimed that thousands of Srebrenica Bosniaks were killed in combat during the breakthrough of the Bosnian Army from Srebrenica towards Tuzla in July 1995.
The international court in The Hague has rejected a request from former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric’s lawyers to order the Sarajevo judiciary to halt war crimes proceedings against him.
Testifying at the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, two state prosecution witnesses denied having threatened a protected witness to alter a statement. The protected witness, known as SM-102, said he was threatened by the witnesses, who investigated wartime killings in the village of Petkovci in the municipality of Zvornik.