The Hague Tribunal said it secretly granted early release last year to former Bosnian Serb officer Momir Nikolic, who was jailed for Srebrenica crimes, after he became a crucial prosecution witness.
At today’s hearing of the Ratko Mladic trial, the defense disputed testimony given to a former Hague Tribunal investigator by former Bosnian Serb Army official Momir Nikolic.
Mladics defence team again disputed the testimony of a key Hague Tribunal prosecution witness who said that the former Bosnian Serb military chief gestured that Srebrenica captives would be killed.
A former Bosnian Serb Army officer told his ex-commander Ratko Mladics trial that the defendant never made a gesture indicating that all Bosniak prisoners from Srebrenica would be killed in July 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic, former military police officer Mile Petrovic denied killing Bosnian Muslims who had surrendered to Serb forces after the fall of Srebrenica. Hed been accused of the killings by his former superior, Momir Nikolic, in testimony hed given to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The Bosnian state court extended the custody of five former Bosnian Serb fighters suspected of seizing 20 passengers from a train in Strpci in 1993 and then killing them.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, orders one-month custody for ten people who are suspected of having kidnapped passengers from a train in Strpci, and were later killed in the Visegrad area.
At the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, who are charged with genocide in Srebrenica, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, includes, in the case file, Momir Nikolics testimony before The Hague Tribunal.
The mass murders of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were committed as a result of a command from the top, the genocide trial of former Serb fighter Aleksandar Cvetkovic was told.
Testifying at Radovan Karadzics trial, a former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says that, following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, he did not kill six Bosniaks, who surrendered, although his then superior Momir Nikolic accused him of doing it during the course of his testimony.