Ratko Mladic's defence used the witness's testimony to deny allegations that the Bosnian Serb Army was responsible for a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies in Tomasica near Prijedor.
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, defense witness Mile Dmicic said Alija Izetbegovic, the former Bosnian president, carried out the political aims described in his book, “Islamic Declaration.”
Defence military expert Mitar Kovac told Ratko Mladic’s trial that the leading Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) caused the war because it wanted a Muslim-dominated state.
Hague Tribunal president Theodor Meron has designated a judge to consider a motion filed by the defense of Naser Oric. The motion requests that the proceedings against Oric at the Bosnian state court be discontinued.
Testifying in defence of Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb deputy interior minister Dragan Kijac said that in 1996 he gave fake identification cards to Srebrenica massacre suspects so they could flee to Serbia.
Dragan Kijac, the former chief of the National Security Service of Republika Srpska, testified in Ratko Mladic’s defense at the Hague Tribunal. Kijac said the National Security Service had received no information on crimes committed against Bosniaks in Prijedor during the Bosnian war.
Testifying in Ratko Mladic’s defense at the Hague, defense witness Savo Strbac said the defendant played a constructive role in the exchange of prisoners during the war in Croatia in 1991.
A defence witness at Ratko Mladic’s trial said he did not know in 1992 that the bodies of Bosniaks and Croats were being buried in mines he ran near Prijedor, but believes that local police did it.
Lawyers for former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric asked the Hague Tribunal to order Bosnia to halt war crimes proceedings against him because he has already been acquitted of the charges.