Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, former Chief of the Main Headquarters with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS confirms that indictee Karadzic was supreme commander of the armed forces of Republika Srpska.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic at The Hague, his associate Mira Mihajlovic confirms the authenticity of a protocol and diary about his meetings and telephone conversations in the period from 1993 to 1996, which are held by The Hague Prosecution.
The powerful symbolism of the 1994 and 1995 market massacres explains why many Serbs are reluctant to accept court verdicts pinning responsibility for them on the Bosnian Serb army.
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.