Person: Lukic Branko


26. August 2013.
While cross-examining Defence’s expert in history Robert Donia, Ratko Mladic’s Defence says that the referendum on independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina in February 1992 was “unlawful and anti-constitutional”, because it was conducted despite opposition by Serbs, as one of the constitutional peoples, and violated the constitutional prohibition of outvoting based on ethnic grounds.


22. August 2013.
Testifying at Ratko Mladic’s trial, Hague Prosecution expert Robert Donia says that, during the Bosnian war Ratko Mladic was dedicated to creating a Serbian state through separation from Bosniaks and Croats, although he warned, while speaking before the Assembly in the spring 1992, that “it would be genocide”.


17. July 2013.
The Defence of Ratko Mladic suggests at his trial before the Hague Tribunal that, during the offensive on Srebrenica in July 1995 Republika Srpska, RS President Radovan Karadzic “had direct contacts” with Radislav Krstic, Commander of the Drina Corps with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who commanded the attack.


18. June 2013.
Prosecution witness Dragomir Keserovic says at the trial of Ratko Mladic at The Hague that, in 1995 he did not get any pieces of information about the execution of Muslim captives from Srebrenica, although he was in Bratunac and its surroundings in mid-July in his capacity as Security Officer with the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.