City: Zvornik


23. December 2011.
At the trial of four people charged with genocide in Srebrenica, witnesses who were testifying about the execution of prisoners at the Branjevo Military Academy on July 16, 1995, were being confronted.

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16. December 2011.
A former member of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad of the Main Headquarters with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS says at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica that he was not present on Branjevo military farm in July 1995, when captives were shot, adding that he found out about it later.


22. November 2011.
Testifying in his defence at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, indictee Franc Kos says that prisoners, who were brought to Branjevo military farm, were first killed from machine guns and then from revolvers, adding that all indictees participated in the shooting.

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2. November 2011.
At the trial of defendants charged with genocide in Srebrenica, a witness for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that Muslims in Srebrenica did not have weapons which they could use to put up resistance to Bosnian Serbs in July 1995. Joseph Kingori, former UN military observer in Srebrenica, said that Muslims in Srebrenica only had light firearms and because of that they were not able to put up meaningful resistance to the army of Bosnian Serbs.

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31. October 2011.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentences Momir Pelemis to 16 and Slavko Peric to 19 years' imprisonment for assisting in the commission of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. Under the first instance verdict, the Chamber determined that Pelemis, former Deputy Commander of the First Battalion with Zvornik Brigade, and Peric, former Assistant Commander for Security with that same unit, assisted in the murder of at least 1,000 Bosniak men in Pilica area, Zvornik municipality.

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12. October 2011.
Testifying for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, Dean Manning confirms that remains that were found in graves around Srebrenica suggest that the men were killed as prisoners, not as soldiers in combats.