The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb Army officer Vujadin Popovic, who is serving a life sentence for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.
The UN court in The Hague has rejected requests for early release from three war crimes convicts because they have not shown signs that they have been rehabilitated – a move applauded by Bosnian war victims’ organisation. Bosnian war victims’ representatives have welcomed decisions by Carmel Agius, president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals […]
A Defence witness told Ratko Mladics trial in the Hague that in July 1995, Dragomir Pecanac took members of the Bosnian Serb Army to kill Srebrenica Muslims acting without orders.
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.
Defence witness Nedo Blagojevic told Ratko Mladic's trial in the Hague that Bosnian Army was not able to fully intercept radio relay links of the Bosnian Serb Army in east Bosnia.
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.
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.
At the trial of Radovan Karadzic prosecutors try to prove that Defence witness Vujadin Popovic was not an innocent passer-by at several locations, where thousands of Srebrenica Muslims were shot in July 1995, but he was a committed participant and one of the key crime perpetrators.
As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, former Chief Security Officer with the Drina Corps of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, Vujadin Popovic says that, in July 1995 he did not know about a plan for the killing of Srebrenica residents.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic wants to call his wartime military chief Ratko Mladic to testify at his Hague Tribunal trial that he never ordered the Srebrenica massacres.