14. March 2018.
A lawyer for former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic told his trial that the prosecution’s expert had not presented any evidence confirming ties between Serbian paramilitaries in Bosnia and the Serbian security service.
Person: Stanisic Jovica
14. March 2018.
Former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told his trial in The Hague that there was no evidence that paramilitary forces who committed war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia were under the service’s control.
8. March 2018.
Former Serbian State Security Service Jovica Stanisic’s defence denied that the ‘Tigers’ paramilitary unit led by Arkan and the ‘Scorpions’ fighters were commanded by Belgrade during the Croatian and Bosnian wars.
7. March 2018.
Military expert Reynaud Theunens testified at Stanisic and Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that Serbian State Security Service (SDB) units were involved in crimes during the Croatian war in 1991.
Theunens quoted field reports by Yugoslav People’s Army intelligence bodies about crimes committed by members of the Serbian Volunteer Guard led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, and by other Serbian volunteer and paramilitary units, which according to the witness’s findings, were under the control of defendants Stanisic and Simatovic.
6. March 2018.
A prosecution military expert told the trial of former Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that their units were involved in the persecution and killing of non-Serb civilians during the Bosnian war.
15. February 2018.
A witness told the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serb paramilitary forces led by the notorious Arkan murdered Bosniaks in Zvornik in April 1992.
A protected prosecution witness codenamed RFJ-019 testified at the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that she was told that Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, led the fighters who killed Bosniak civilians in Zvornik in April 1992.
30. January 2018.
A prosecution witness told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the Belgrade authorities supported Bosnian Serb leaders their attempt to create a homogenous Serb state in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
30. November 2017.
An ex-member of the ‘Scorpions’ paramilitaries told the Hague Tribunal that his unit and the ‘Tigers’ led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, were under the control of the Serbian security service in the Bosnian and Croatian wars.
9. November 2017.
Former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that he never controlled the Scorpions paramilitary unit which committed crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
8. November 2017.
At the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, prosecutors played a video of paramilitaries from the Scorpions unit murdering men from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Prosecutors played the video of the six Bosniak civilians’ murders, filmed by the Scorpions themselves, at Stanisic and Simatovic’s trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday.
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