War crimes in the village of Zepa just after the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995 were initially tried as genocide, but the charge was eventually dropped, and 25 years on, most suspects have never even been indicted.
The former intelligence chief of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Main Headquarters, Zdravko Tolimir, who was convicted of the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, died in the Hague Tribunal’s detention unit.
On April 8, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia will bring down a verdict against Zdravko Tolimir, a former senior officer of the Bosnian Serb Army. Under a first instance verdict, Tolimir was sentenced to life in prison for committing genocide in Srebrenica and Zepa.
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, Goran Krcmar said he didnt know the official number of missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Srebrenica. According to Krcmar, no census of missing persons has been conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Srebrenica.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former Republika Srpska Army, VRS, general Zdravko Tolimir says that neither he nor Karadzic knew about the mass executions of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in the summer of 1995.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former Republika Srpska Army, VRS, officer Milenko Todorovic says that there was a plan to transfer more than a thousand Bosniak captives from Srebrenica to Bijeljina in July 1995.
As Mladics trial continues, a Hague Prosecution witness says that, in July 1995 the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, announced that captured Bosniaks from Srebrenica would be escorted to Batkovic detention camp, near Bijeljina, but they never arrived.
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.