Drago Nikolic, the former security officer of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik brigade, died today in Serbia while on temporary leave. Nikolic was convicted of assisting in the Srebrenica genocide.
The Hague Tribunal rejected five former Bosnian Serb Army officers appeals against their convictions for war crimes including genocide against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.
On January 30 the Appellate Chamber of the Hague Tribunal is due to pronounce a verdict against Vujadin Popovic and four other indictees, who were sentenced, under a first instance verdict, for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995.
At the trial for genocide in Srebrenica the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, reads a statement, which indictee Ostoja Stanisic gave to a Hague Tribunal investigator in the capacity of a suspect.
Testifying at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, State Prosecution witness Srecko Acimovic says that he did not accept an order to select a group of soldiers to kill captives from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Former Republika Srpska Army, VRS, officer Srecko Acimovic says at Ratko Mladics trial that he refused two orders to shoot Bosniak captives from Srebrenica, who were held in a school building in Rocevici village, Zvornik, in July 1995.
As he continues testifying at Ratko Mladics trial, former Republika Srpska Army officer Momir Nikolic says that, when he asked Mladic about the fate of captured Muslims two days after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, Mladic responded by making an abrupt hand gesture, from which one could realise that they would be killed.
Testifying at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, a State Prosecution witness says that Drago Nikolic and Milorad Trbic visited a school building in Petkovci and a nearby dam, where about one thousand Bosniak prisoners were killed, in mid-July 1995.
Until today seven members of the Zvornik Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska, VRS, were found guilty and sentenced to a total of 139 years in prison for killing more than 2,500 men and boys from the area of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Hague verdicts hold High Command under Ratko Mladic most responsible for the carnage in Srebrenica, along with active participation of Bosian Serb armys Drina Corps.