Dragan Kijac, the former head of the Bosnian Serb Army’s intelligence agency, told the Hague Tribunal that he only heard about the Srebrenica killings in 2000.
A former British UN peacekeeper testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said his command widely believed that Bosnian Serb forces weren’t responsible for the attack on the Markale Market in Sarajevo in 1994.
Dragan Kijac, the former chief of the National Security Service of Republika Srpska, testified at today’s hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial. During his testimony he said he’d never seen any documents issued by the National Security Service regarding the deportation of the non-Serb population during the Bosnian war.
Drago Nikolic, the former security officer of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik brigade, died today in Serbia while on temporary leave. Nikolic was convicted of assisting in the Srebrenica genocide.
The Hague Tribunal said it secretly granted early release last year to former Bosnian Serb officer Momir Nikolic, who was jailed for Srebrenica crimes, after he became a crucial prosecution witness.
Ratko Mladic’s ballistic expert Zorica Subotic concluded her testimony on shelling incidents in Sarajevo, after more than a week of testifying at the Hague Tribunal.
Hague prosecutors challenged claims made by ballistics expert Zorica Subotic at the Ratko Mladic trial. Subotic said modified air bombs fired by the Bosnian Serb Army on Sarajevo in 1994 and 1995 were precise and only hit military targets.
A ballistics expert testifying in defense of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic said the explosion in Sarajevo’s Markale Market during the winter of 1994 was a “well-organized conspiracy.”
Hague prosecutors at the Ratko Mladic trial continued to refute the findings of ballistics expert Zorica Subotic. Subotic has denied Bosnian Serb Army responsibility for several mortar attacks in Sarajevo, which caused high numbers of civilian casualties.
At the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, the Hague prosecutors disputed the expertise and reliability of the Defence's ballistic expert, Zorica Subotic.