Person: Karadzic Radovan


29. October 2013.
Following a two-month break in Radovan Karadzic’s trial, Defence witness John (Jovan) Zametica says that the indictee was “a weak president”, who neither had control over the Army, police, government nor municipalities.


1. October 2013.
Hague Tribunal President Theodor Meron forms a special trial chamber, which will examine whether there are grounds for initiating an investigation against former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte for contempt of court.


19. September 2013.
The Defence of Ratko Mladic suggests before The Hague Tribunal that the then President of Republika Srpska, RS, and supreme Commander of the RS Army Radovan Karadzic “skipped” the Main Headquarters of the RS Army in March 1995, when he ordered lower units to create “an unbearable situation” for Muslim civilians in Srebrenica.


18. September 2013.
Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic, witness Manojlo Milovanovic says that the Seventh Directive, under which supreme military Commander Radovan Karadzic ordered the VRS to “create an unbearable situation of complete uncertainty without hope for further survival and life of civilian population” in Srebrenica and Zepa, was unlawful.


17. September 2013.
Retired general of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, Manojlo Milovanovic says at Ratko Mladic’s trial that the RS Assembly “opted for a war option” at a session held in May 1992 at which it formed the VRS and appointed General Mladic its commander.