The Srebrenica genocide indictment against Momir Pelemis is too widely formulated and represents a trap, aimed at assigning as much guilt as possible to the accused, said Pelemiss defense in their closing arguments.
The presentation of evidence at the trial of Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, who are charged with genocide in Srebrenica, has been completed with the presentation of supplementary findings and opinion by a Defence expert witness.
The presentation of evidence at the trial of Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, who are charged with genocide in Srebrenica, has been completed with the presentation of supplementary findings and opinion by a Defence expert witness.
Analyzing additional 179 death certificates at the trial of two indictees for genocide in Srebrenica, a Defence expert witness says that the remains of only two persons originate from a primary grave in Pilica, near Zvornik.
On the second day of his testimony at the trial for the Srebrenica genocide, a defence witness for Momir Pelemis says that no procedure related to the exchange of captured Srebrenica residents, who were held in the Kula school building in Pilica, Zvornik municipality prior to being executed on Branjevo farm, was conducted.
Historian Michael Craig McQueen testifies at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, and says that bringing Srebrenica prisoners to Pilica (Zvornik municipality) in July 1995 meant they would be executed.
Testifying at a trial for genocide committed in Srebrenica, a Prosecution military expert witness says that indictee Slavko Peric would have been expected to be present in Pilica, Zvornik municipality, in July 1995.
Testifying at the trial for genocide committed in Srebrenica, a Prosecution witness says that he participated in the exhumation of two graves in Kamenica, near Zvornik, adding that he was later told that the remains orginated from a mass grave in Branjevo.
At the trial of Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, who are charged with genocide committed in Srebrenica, a Prosecution witness says that in mid July 1995 he got a cable, saying that he was supposed to select a squad of soldiers for the execution of prisoners, who were held in the school building in Rocevici, Zvornik municipality.
Expert military witness Petar Vuga says that indictee Slavko Peric acted appropriately when he came to the school building in Pilica, where a large group of Bosniak prisoners had been brought in July 1995.