1. April 2015.
Findings by a team of psychiatric experts were presented at the Novica Tripkovic trial. The team determined whether Tripkovic was capable of following the trial. Tripkovic has been tried for war crimes in Kalinovik.
Person: Tripkovic Novica
11. March 2015.
The proceedings against Marinko Bjelica will take place separately from the other defendants accused of committing crimes against civilians in Kalinovik. The trial chamber decided to conduct separate proceedings for Bjelica due to his poor health.
11. February 2015.
Defense witnesses at the trial of former Bosnian Serb fighter Zoran Bjelica say that he was in Montenegro when alleged crimes he committed in Kalinovik took place.
21. January 2015.
Testifying in defence of Zoran Bjelica, who is charged with crimes in Kalinovik, witnesses confirm that they did not see the indictee in the Trnovo and Kalinovik area during the war, adding that they heard that the indictee and his family were in Serbia or Montenegro in that period.
24. December 2014.
Testifying in defence of Zoran Bjelica at the trial of three former members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who are charged with crimes in Kalinovik, witnesses say that they did not see the indictee from May 1992 onwards, because he was in Montenegro.
17. December 2014.
Branislav Vukovic, a car mechanic from Niksic, says that he met indictee Zoran Bjelica at Slavko Pekovics in June 1992, adding that Pekovic owned a yard and grocery store.
10. December 2014.
The trial of Marinko and Zoran Bjelica, as well as Novica Tripkovic, who are charged with crimes in Kalinovik in 1992, has been postponed for technical reasons, specifically due to the absence of the third indictee.
3. December 2014.
The first witnesses, testifying in defence of Marinko Bjelica, who is charged with crimes in Kalinovik, confirm before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, that they saw the indictee at Rogoj at the beginning of August 1992, while he was withdrawing, together with other members of the Army, towards Dobro Polje.
19. November 2014.
The examination of Defence witnesses at the trial of three indictees, who are charged with crimes in Kalinovik in 1992, is due to begin next week.
22. October 2014.
During the trial for crimes in Kalinovik in 1992 a witness statement is read, in which the witness said that he transported bodies of three Muslims, who were detained in a school building.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.