People gathered at the Markale market in Sarajevo yesterday to commemorate the twenty first anniversary of the massacre that took place there during the Bosnian war.
At todays hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial in the Hague, defense witness Vinko Nikolic blamed Bosnian Muslims for the breakout of war in Sanksi Most in 1992. He also denied that Serb forces had expelled Bosnian Muslims from the area.
Defence witness Vojin Ubiparip told the Ratko Mladic trial that Mladic always respected the Geneva Convention and Muslims left Serb-held territory on the orders of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, not because Serbian forces persecuted them into leaving.
Two protected witnesses who had previously testified against Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had their testimony replayed at the trial of Oliver Krsmanovic, an alleged accomplice of Lukic.
A Defence witness told Ratko Mladic's trial in the Hague that in 1993 the Bosnian Serb Army provided help for thousands of Croatian civilians and fighters.
As Ratko Mladic's defense before the Hague Tribunal continues, witness Slobodan Zupljanin says that the Army of Republika Srpska was not able to prevent the killing of Bosnian Muslims in Kotor-Varos in the autumn of 1992. Zupljanin maintains that the killings were committed by Serb civilians.
Last Friday, the Hague Tribunal confirmed the verdict in the case of of Vinko Pandurevic, a former officer with the Army of Republika Srpska, who was sentenced with 13 years in prison for his involvement in the Srebrenica massacre.
The Hague Tribunal rejected five former Bosnian Serb Army officers appeals against their convictions for war crimes including genocide against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic asked the Hague Tribunal to allow him to access the internet while he is in detention so he can pursue his career as a writer.