Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic, former United Nations, UN military observer Francis Roy Thomas confirms that the Republika Srpska Army, VRS unselectively shelled Sarajevo in 1993 and 1994.
The trial of Ratko Mladic, former Commander of the Republika Srpska Army, who is charged with genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continues before the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague behind closed doors.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb army officer denied that in 1992 the army expelled Bosniaks from the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Vrace, where his unit was stationed.
As the trial of Ratko Mladic before The Hague Tribunal continues, his Defence tries to deny the findings of investigations, which determined that the Republika Srpska Army, VRS was responsible for shelling and sniping attacks against civilians in Sarajevo in 1994 and 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic, witness Nusret Sivac speaks about his detention in Omarska detention camp and the ethnic cleansing of the non-Serb population from Prijedor in 1992.
At the trial of the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, the Hague Tribunal heard a testimony about the second attack on Sarajevos Markale market in August 1995.
All the Serb Democratic Party-run crisis headquarters were acting in harmony with the army under command of Ratko Mladic in the forced takeover of power in municipalities across Bosnia and Herzegovina in spring 1992, said the Prosecutions expert witness, Dorothea Hanson, at the trial of Ratko Mladic in The Hague.
The Defence of Ratko Mladic presents at the trial at The Hague intercepted conversations in which the indictee orders his subordinates to stop fire in Sarajevo in late May 1992, telling them lets give peace a chance to speak.
As the trial of Ratko Mladic, who is charged with genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continues, Hague Prosecution witness John Wilson says that, following the fierce shelling of Sarajevo from surrounding Serb positions in late May 1992, senior officers of the then Yugoslav National Army, JNA dissociated itself from that attack, saying that Mladic was out of control.
During the trial of Ratko Mladic, who is charged with genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Defence compares the shelling of Sarajevo from Republika Srpska Army, VRS positions with the U.S.-led Operation Deliberate Force, designed to quickly weaken the enemy.