Former Serbian state security officers Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic pleaded not guilty at the UN court in The Hague at their retrial for war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court will hand down its verdict in the case of Sreten Lazarevic, Dragan Stanojevic and Slobodan Ostojic on June 9.
The Federal Prosecution requests the Court to pronounce longer sentence against four suspects, whom the Tuzla Cantonal Court sentenced to a total of 18-and-a-half years in prison for crimes against prisoners of war in Smoluca, Lukavac municipality, while the Defence requests quashing of the verdict.
Testifying in defence of the former commander of Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladic, Rajko Sarenac said what he knew of the personality of the accused stood 'in stark contrast to the crimes of genocide that he is accused of'.
A defence witness told the trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic that Bosniaks started the conflict in Rogatica in spring 1992 by attacking Serb villages.
As the trial of Ratko Mladic continues, a Defence witness says that members of all ethnic groups were among soldiers of the Republika Srpska Army, deployed in the Sarajevo surroundings and that some of them were killed due to artillery and sniper attacks conducted by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Defence witness Rado Stevanovic says at the trial for crimes in Ugljevik, that indictee Oliver Rodic had never had any contact with prisoners, who were deployed to Mount Majevica in order to perform labour.
Radovan Karadzic gained nothing when Ratko Mladic refused to answer questions at his trial, while anyone seeking the truth about either mans wartime role was left none the wiser.
Almost all the Hague Tribunals prosecution evidence against Ratko Mladic has now been heard, with witnesses testifying that the former Bosnian Serb military chief must have known about war crimes.