Bosnian Serb war crimes suspects received 640,000 euro of state money, plus more cash from private funds, while Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats got nothing.
Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation has revealed.
Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic, who is charged with genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says that he can hardly wait to testify in his defence.
Radomir Radinkovic, former Intelligence Officer of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says, testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, that Bosniaks and Croats, who were held in a detention camp at Manjaca in 1992, were treated in line with regulations.
With the all-important 1992-5 war glaringly absent from the textbooks in Bosnias schools, pupils and teachers have to fill in the knowledge gap on their own.
The Hague Tribunal rejects a request for revocation of a verdict against Rasim Delic due to alleged biasness of one of the judges, saying that, due to the death of the former Commander of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is no legal ground for reconsidering the verdict.
Appearing before the International Tribunal at The Hague, Milomir Stakic, wartime leader of Serbs in Prijedor, confirms that grave crimes were committed against Muslims and Croats in that municipality in 1992 and expresses his regrets to victims.
Indictee Radovan Karadzic tries to deny a statement by one of Prosecutions witnesses that the Bosnian Serbs leaderships policy during the Bosnian war was to kill one third of Muslims, convert one third to Orthodox religion and let the last third leave on their own.
The Prosecution of the International Court at The Hague completes the examination of its witnesses at the trial of Ratko Mladic, former Commander of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former Republika Srpska Army, VRS, general Zdravko Tolimir says that neither he nor Karadzic knew about the mass executions of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in the summer of 1995.