Tuesday, 16 september 2025.
Seizing Sarajevo Meant Suicide
A former officer told Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial that Bosnian Serb forces were not strong enough to seize Sarajevo during the 1992-95 siege of the city.
Serbs Didn’t Organise Expulsions, Claims Mladic’s Witness
A defence witness told Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial that the Bosnian Serb military and civilian authorities did not organise the expulsion of non-Serbs from the Rogatica area in 1992.
Older, sicker and more educated
The UN Detention Centre in Scheveningen is very unusual. It is quiet and has no smell. There is no noise or odour of sweat or a speck of dirt –...
Mladic’s Witness Says Serb Forces Protected Civilians
A witness at the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic said that Serb troops held civilians at a school in Rogatica in 1992 to protect them from fighting, not to...
Radovan Karadzic ‘Wanted to Destroy Bosniaks’
As Karadzic’s war crimes trial nears its end, the prosecutor argued that the former Bosnian Serb leader masterminded a campaign of murder and ethnic cleansing aimed at eradicating Bosniaks.
Karadzic’s ‘Clean Conscience and Heavy Heart’
Presenting his comment on the Hague Prosecution’s closing statement, Radovan Karadzic, former President of Republika Srpska, points out that he always advocated for a peaceful solution of conflicts in Bosnia...
Mladic’s Witness Claims Serbs Didn’t Control Paramilitaries
Paramilitary units that terrorised Bosniaks in the Foca area in 1992 were not under army orders, a witness told the Hague trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic.
Karadzic ‘Knew Nothing’ About Srebrenica Massacres
In closing arguments at Radovan Karadzic’s trial, the indictee’s lawyer said the Bosnian Serb ex-leader did not order or know anything about the killings of 7,000 Muslims so was not...
Karadzic Certain of Acquittal
In his closing statement, former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic said that he wants only the truth, for the sake of truth and international well-being and that the truth...
Disarming instead of Attack
As the trial of Ratko Mladic continues, a Defence witness says that, when local residents of Hrustovo village, near Sanski Most, refused to hand over their weapons to Serb forces,...