A defense witness testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial at the Hague Tribunal said Ratko Mladic was attending a wedding on July 16, 1995, when the Bosnian Serb Army attacked Srebrenica.
A draft law that would have provided benefits to wartime Bosnian Serb politicians including several convicted war criminals and Hague Tribunal defendant Radovan Karadzic has been withdrawn.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dragan Zelenovic was released after serving two-thirds of his 15-year sentence for the wartime rape and abuse of women and girls in Foca.
A former UN military observer testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said he discovered a Bosnian Army mortar position believed to be a source of the grenade attack on the Markale Market in Sarajevo in 1995.
If a new law on the rights of Republika Srprska representatives who served from 1991-1996 is adopted, three war crime convicts and a war crime suspect will receive payments from the budget of Republika Srpska.
At today’s hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial, the defense disputed testimony given to a former Hague Tribunal investigator by former Bosnian Serb Army official Momir Nikolic.
A defence witness told Ratko Mladic’s trial at the Hague Tribunal that in the summer of 1995, UN peacekeepers were held by the Bosnian Serb Army as prisoners of war, not hostages.
A former UN peacekeeping officer testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial said the Bosnian Army was most probably responsible for the Markale massacre in Sarajevo in 1994, in which 66 people died and 140 more were wounded.
Mladics former driver told the Hague Tribunal he was with the Bosnian Serb military chief in Belgrade on the days in July 1995 when his forces massacred Bosniaks in Srebrenica.
Veteran Hague Tribunal judge Jean-Claude Antonetti has withdrawn from the chamber making the final decision on Serb paramilitary Milan Lukics bid to overturn his life sentence, arguing that he is not impartial.