As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, former President of the Zvornik Crisis Committee Branko Grujic says that paramilitary formations were responsible for crimes against Bosniaks in that town.
A former intelligence officer with the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says, testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, that he first heard about the shooting of thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, which happened in July 1995, at the end of that year or in 1996, although he was present in the enclave two days after its fall.
Former Republika Srpska Army, VRS, officer Srecko Acimovic says at Ratko Mladics trial that he refused two orders to shoot Bosniak captives from Srebrenica, who were held in a school building in Rocevici village, Zvornik, in July 1995.
Retired intelligence Lieutenant Colonel of the Republika Srpska Army Petar Salapura says at Radovan Karadzics trial that the liquidation of Bosniaks had never been mentioned among members of the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, prior to the attack on Srebrenica in July 1995.
At the trial for the genocide in Srebrenica, the witness for the Prosecution said that while he was at the front line at the time when prisoners were brought in to Petkovci village near Zvornik, he heard that whoever has an automatic rifle should go to the village.
Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic, Petar Salapura, former Chief of the Intelligence Administration of the Main Headquarters with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, confirms that members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad participated in the shooting of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Prosecution witness Dragomir Keserovic says at the trial of Ratko Mladic at The Hague that, in 1995 he did not get any pieces of information about the execution of Muslim captives from Srebrenica, although he was in Bratunac and its surroundings in mid-July in his capacity as Security Officer with the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.
Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic for genocide and other crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Hague Prosecution witness says that, in mid-July 1995 he knew that Serb soldiers were taking hundreds of Srebrenica Bosniaks from two school buildings in Zvornik, which he guarded, in order to shoot them.
Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic continues presenting his defence against the accusations for persecution and murders of Bosniaks from Zvornik by examining former Police Station Chief Marinko Vasilic, who blames crimes upon paramilitary formations.