15. December 2016.
Defence and prosecution lawyers made their final comments in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander for genocide and other wartime crimes and judges adjourned to start considering their verdict.
Genocide in BiH
15. December 2016.
Prosecutors at Ratko Mladic’s trial rejected the defence’s closing arguments, insisting that the evidence proves that the former Bosnian Serb military commander is guilty of genocide and other wartime crimes.
13. December 2016.
On the final day of closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial in The Hague, defence lawyers urged the UN court to acquit the former Bosnian Serb Army commander of war crimes and genocide.
12. December 2016.
In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the defence said UN prosecutors did not prove the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces committed genocide in six Bosnian municipalities in 1992.
Mladic’s defence lawyer Dragan Ivetic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Monday that the prosecutors had not proved that there was a coordinated plan for the commission of genocide in the six municipalities or that the Bosnian Serb Army commander was responsible for persecution and ethnic cleansing there.
9. December 2016.
In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, lawyers for the former Bosnian Serb military commander said he never ordered the Srebrenica mass killings and the case against him was systematically biased.
7. December 2016.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia called on judges at the UN court to jail Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic for life for genocide and other wartime crimes.
6. December 2016.
On the second day of closing statements at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the prosecution said the former Bosnian Serb military chief praised and promoted officers involved in ethnic cleansing and murder.
5. December 2016.
In the first day of closing arguments in Ratko Mladic’s trial, prosecutors said the former Bosnian Serb military commander played a crucial role in a brutal plan to ‘cleanse’ areas of Bosnia of non-Serbs.
5. December 2016.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal challenging the Hague Tribunal’s verdict sentencing him to 40 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.
2. December 2016.
After accusations of genocide, ethnic cleansing, brutal detentions and a punishing siege, lawyers in the four-year trial of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic begin to present their closing arguments next week.
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