During the cross-examination of ballistics expert Mile Poparic, Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial disputed claims that the Bosnian Serb Army didn’t kill a seven year old and his mother in the center of Sarajevo in 1994.
Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial said civilians and vehicles in Sarajevo were visible from Bosnian Serb sniper positions during the Bosnian war. Mile Poparic, a ballistics expert testifying for the defense, confirmed this statement.
The prosecutor at the trial of Ratko Mladic tried to undermine claims by a defence ballistics expert that Bosnian Serb Army snipers did not intentionally kill or wound civilians in besieged Sarajevo.
A ballistics expert testifying in Ratko Mladic’s defence denied that a bullet that killed a seven-year-old boy and wounded his mother in Sarajevo in 1994 was fired from Serb positions.
A defence ballistics expert told Ratko Mladic’s trial that the Bosnian Serb Army did not carry out sniper attacks on Sarajevo in 1994, accusing Bosniak forces of being responsible for the shootings.
Testifying in defense of Ratko Mladic, ballistics expert Mile Poparic said the Bosnian Serb Army couldn’t have been responsible for Sarajevo sniper attacks listed in the indictment.
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.
The testimony of Dragan Kijac, a former security officer for the Bosnian Serb Army, was interrupted at the beginning of today’s hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial. When the hearing resumed after a break, the defendant was no longer in the courtroom.
Judge Carmel Agius has been elected president of the Hague Tribunal. Chinese judge Liu Daqun has been elected his deputy. Both have been elected to two year mandates.