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.
On January 30 the Appellate Chamber of the Hague Tribunal is due to pronounce a verdict against Vujadin Popovic and four other indictees, who were sentenced, under a first instance verdict, for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995.
At the trial for genocide in Srebrenica the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, reads a statement, which indictee Ostoja Stanisic gave to a Hague Tribunal investigator in the capacity of a suspect.
The mass murders of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were committed as a result of a command from the top, the genocide trial of former Serb fighter Aleksandar Cvetkovic was told.
War criminal Stanko Kojic told the genocide trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic that Bosnian Serb troops killed several hundred prisoners from Srebrenica one by one in order not to waste any bullets.
Convicted war criminal Franc Kos told the genocide trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic how he and his fellow troops executed Bosniak prisoners from Srebrenica at a farm in Branjevo in 1995.
Testifying at Radovan Karadzics trial, Ljubisa Beara, former Colonel with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, denies guilt for genocide in Srebrenica, accusing Serb police for mass murders of Srebrenica Muslims in July 1995.
Testifying at Radovan Karadzics trial before The Hague Tribunal, witness Bosko Mandic says that none of the authorities organised or abetted the removal of non-Serbs from Prijedor.
At the trial of Radovan Karadzic prosecutors try to prove that Defence witness Vujadin Popovic was not an innocent passer-by at several locations, where thousands of Srebrenica Muslims were shot in July 1995, but he was a committed participant and one of the key crime perpetrators.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska Tomislav Kovac blames dangerous people from the Military Security Service, led by Chief Ljubisa Beara, for the massacre in Srebrenica.