Person: Karadzic Radovan


24. February 2012.
As his trial before The Hague Tribunal continues, indictee Radovan Karadzic suggests that he did not know about crimes committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, saying that reports, which he received from the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, did not contain any potentially “alarming” facts.


23. February 2012.
During the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Hague Tribunal prosecutors play a video recording made in the summer of 1994, depicting Ratko Mladic, Commander of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, saying that the VRS “defeated Bosniaks in Podrinje” and that they would have “disappeared” from the area had they not been protected by UNPROFOR in Srebrenica.


16. February 2012.
During his trial before The Hague Tribunal, indictee Radovan Karadzic says that crimes committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica by Serb forces in July 1995 were caused by “enormous hatred that was not only generated during that war and the Second World War, but also during all other possible wars”.


10. February 2012.
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.


9. February 2012.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic at The Hague, former President of the Bratunac Town Government, Srbislav Davidovic says that he found out about the mass murder of Bosniaks in Kravica village on July 13, 1995 one day after it had happened, adding that two Serb officers asked him to provide loaders on that same day.


3. February 2012.
While cross-examining Prosecution witness Jean-Rene Ruez at the trial before The Hague Tribunal, indictee Radovan Karadzic says that “Muslims soldiers”, who were killed prior to July 1995, were among the people who were buried in several mass graves in Eastern Bosnia.