The trial of three defendants charged with participating in the Srebrenica genocide has been postponed due to the failure of a state prosecution witness to appear in court.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with genocide in Srebrenica said he saw defendant Radomir Pantic several times on July l3, 1995. He said he was tasked with ensuring the uninterrupted passage of vehicles.
A defense expert testifying at the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic said no date or place of birth was indicated for most of the identified victims in the case. Stanisic and Milosevic have been charged with genocide in Srebrenica.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with genocide in Srebrenica said defendant Miodrag Josipovic ordered to him to go to Potocari to monitor the situation and count civilians in July 1995.
At the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, a defence witness said that Bosniak civilians left Srebrenica voluntarily after the town fell to the Bosnian Serb Army in July 1995.
Serbian forensic expert Dusan Dunjic, who was scheduled to testify in Ratko Mladic’s defence, was found dead in a hotel in the Netherlands but the cause is not yet known.
Dragan Kijac, the former head of the Bosnian Serb Army’s intelligence agency, told the Hague Tribunal that he only heard about the Srebrenica killings in 2000.
A prosecution witness and former high official of the Bosnian Serb Army testified at the trial of five former members of Bosnian Serb police forces charged with genocide in Srebrenica. He said he was ordered to mobilize fifty buses on July 11, 1995, and said the buses were sent to the Bratunac stadium.