The Hague Tribunal has rejected a request from Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic to shorten the daily length of his war crimes trial because of his health complaints.
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.
The trial of Ratko Mladic before the Hague Tribunal continues with testimony by former Republika Srpska Army, VRS, officer Mico Gavric, who said that the VRS captured four Bosniak boys from Srebrenica in the Bratunac surroundings in July 1995.
While cross-examining witness Momir Nikolic, the Defence of Ratko Mladic suggests that Nikolic lied, when he said that two days after the fall of Srebrenica, the indictee made an abrupt hand gesture, foreboding that Muslim captives would be killed.
The Hague Tribunal has acquitted former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic of controlling the most notorious combat units that fought in the Balkan wars.
Prosecution witness Leendert van Duijn says at the trial of Ratko Mladic that a Serb officer told him, in the days that followed the occupation of Srebrenica in July 1995, that captured Bosniaks would no longer need their personal documents, which were previously confiscated from them.
Prosecution witness Evert Rave confirms at the trial of Ratko Mladic at The Hague that Srebrenica was not demilitarised prior to July 1995, despite an agreement reached in 1993, under which it was proclaimed a UN protected zone.
Most of the hearing in the case of Ratko Mladic held at The Hague was closed to public, because a Prosecution witness, whose identity was protected, testified behind closed doors.
Hague Tribunal prosecutors plans to present evidence about the Srebrenica genocide were disrupted when doctors ordered Mladic to rest after a minor operation.
The trial of Ratko Mladic, who is charged with genocide and other crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has not continued for a second day running because he was not able to appear in court due to illness.