City: Zepa


22. May 2013.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, Mirko Trivic says at Ratko Mladic’s trial that Radovan Karadzic’s directive issued in March 1995, instructing the VRS to create “unbearable conditions” for the life and survival of the Muslim population in Srebrenica and Zepa, represented some kind of sanctions on the enclaves.


29. January 2013.
During the cross-examination of former UNPROFOR Commander Rupert Smith, the Defence of Ratko Mladic says that United Nations (UN) “blue helmets” were biased in favour of Bosniaks in 1995, but the witness denies the allegation.


20. April 2012.
The Prosecution’s military analyst Richard Butler says, at the trial of Radovan Karadzic at The Hague, that Karadzic’s Directive no. 4, which was sent to the Republika Srpska Army, VRS in the fall of 1992, was “illegal”, because it ordered “a military attack against the civilian population” in Eastern Bosnia.


19. January 2012.
Indictee Radovan Karadzic denies before the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague, that the Republika Srpska Army, VRS conducted ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks in Eastern Bosnia in 1992 and 1993, while Prosecution witness Pyers Tucker says that he saw persecutions “with his own eyes”.