18. October 2017.
The trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic was told that fighters allegedly controlled by the defendants detained and killed non-Serbs at a base in Croatia run by paramilitary boss Arkan.
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17. October 2017.
At the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a prosecution witness said that paramilitary boss Arkan’s unit - allegedly controlled by the defendants - murdered Croats in 1991.
A protected prosecution witness codenamed RFJ-157 testified at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that a Serbian paramilitary unit led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, committed murders of Croats in the Eastern Slavonia area of Croatia in 1991.
4. October 2017.
A Croatian official told the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Zagreb is still searching for people who disappeared as a result of Serb forces’ attacks in 1991.
Visnja Bilic, who deals with missing persons issues at the Croatian war veterans ministry, told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that most of the 929 people who are still missing from the war in Croatia disappeared in 1991.
25. September 2017.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague ruled that former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic can remain at liberty in his home country until mid-January due to his continuing illness.
20. September 2017.
Former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the Hague war crimes court that Serb forces in Croatia’s Baranja region in 1991 were controlled by the Yugoslav People’s Army, not the security service.
19. September 2017.
A witness told the retrial of former Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the Red Berets unit, allegedly controlled by the defendants, committed crimes against non-Serb civilians in Croatia.
14. September 2017.
The lawyer for the former head of the Serbian State Security Service, Jovica Stanisic, told the UN court that a witness’s claim that the security chief was paramilitary leader Arkan’s boss was untrue.
14. September 2017.
As the trial of the former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, continued in The Hague, a prosecution witness said that Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan, said, in May 1991, that “Stanisic was his boss”.
13. September 2017.
A prosecution witness told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague that the Serbian State Security Service established, controlled and armed Serb forces that waged war in Croatia.
30. August 2017.
The defence lawyer for former Serbian security official Franko Simatovic claimed that the Yugoslav People’s Army led by then colonel Ratko Mladic was responsible for crimes during an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.
The defence lawyer for former Serbian security official Franko Simatovic, alas Frenki, who is being retried alongside his former Serbian Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, sought on Wednesday to shift blame for the 1991 crimes onto Ratko Mladic.
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