A draft law that would have provided benefits to wartime Bosnian Serb politicians including several convicted war criminals and Hague Tribunal defendant Radovan Karadzic has been withdrawn.
If a new law on the rights of Republika Srprska representatives who served from 1991-1996 is adopted, three war crime convicts and a war crime suspect will receive payments from the budget of Republika Srpska.
The Hague Tribunal is planning to hand down its verdict against Radovan Karadzic, the former president of Republika Srpska, in December. The verdict was previously scheduled for October.
A former Bosnian Serb Army commander told Ratko Mladics trial that his units didnt expel Bosniaks from the Podrinje region in 1992 and 1993, insisting that they only retaliated after enemy attacks.
The former Bosnian Serb president has asked the tribunal to hold a status conference in June to discuss his health, prison detention conditions and other objections.
The Hague tribunal has warned Bosnian Serb ex-president Radovan Karadzic and his legal adviser to stop delaying his trial with frivolous motions that do not help his case.
People gathered at the Markale market in Sarajevo yesterday to commemorate the twenty first anniversary of the massacre that took place there during the Bosnian war.
Verdicts in the high-profile war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic and Goran Hadzic are due this year, while the controversy over the release of Vojislav Seselj looks set to continue.
A defence witness told Ratko Mladics trial that Bosnian Serbs had to set up their own government and police before the war because they were being outvoted and obstructed by Bosniaks.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Karadzic wants the Hague Tribunal to reopen his defence case to admit confidential cables from Western ambassadors he believes will help prove his innocence.