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.
Protected Prosecution witness C-6 testifies at the trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, but the Court prohibits the publishing of his testimony.
As the trial for crimes in the Bratunac area continues, Defence witnesses say that volunteers were responsible for detention and mistreatment of Bosniaks and that indictee Savo Babic had nothing to do with it.
At the trial for crimes committed in the territory of Bratunac, witnesses for the prosecution said volunteers struck terror in both ethnic groups hearts and that no one had the courage to stand up to them.
A witness said he saw former Bosnian Serb fighter Savo Babic, now on trial for war crimes, at a primary school in the town of Bratunac where prisoners were allegedly tortured and killed.
Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic continues presenting his defence evidence by examining witness Nenad Deronjic, who denies having participated in the shooting of Srebrenica Bosniaks near Konjevic Polje village, Bratunac municipality, in July 1995.
At the trial for crimes in Bratunac, the Prosecution presents four pieces of material evidence and announces that it might examine another protected witness.
Testifying before The Hague Tribunal, former Republika Srpska police officer Ljubomir Borovcanin says that after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995 he did not know about a plan for the execution of Bosniaks and that it is hard for me to believe that Radovan Karadzic would consent to the murder of captives.
The first prosecution witness at the trial of Savo Babic for crimes in Bratunac changed his statement given during investigation, claiming that the Serb military police did not guard the Vuk Karadzic School in 1992 where Bosniak civilians were held captive.
Prosecution witness Milenko Katanic says, while testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, that Civilian Commissioner for Srebrenica Miroslav Deronjic told him in July 1995, that Ljubisa Beara, Republika Srpska Army, VRS colonel, came to Bratunac in order to look for locations for the detention and probably murder of Bosniaks from Srebrenica.