Former UN peace envoy Yasushi Akashi told Ratko Mladic’s trial that all sides committed crimes during the Bosnian war, but the Serbs were responsible for the most heinous atrocity in Srebrenica.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former members of Bosnian Serb police forces said members of the First Company of the Zvornik public safety center conducted a terrain search in Bratunac and guarded the road between Bratunac and Konjevic Polje in July 1995.
Testifying in defence of Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb deputy interior minister Dragan Kijac said that in 1996 he gave fake identification cards to Srebrenica massacre suspects so they could flee to Serbia.
A defence witness at Ratko Mladic’s trial said he did not know in 1992 that the bodies of Bosniaks and Croats were being buried in mines he ran near Prijedor, but believes that local police did it.
The trial of three defendants charged with participating in the Srebrenica genocide has been postponed due to the failure of a state prosecution witness to appear in court.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with genocide in Srebrenica said he saw defendant Radomir Pantic several times on July l3, 1995. He said he was tasked with ensuring the uninterrupted passage of vehicles.
A defense expert testifying at the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic said no date or place of birth was indicated for most of the identified victims in the case. Stanisic and Milosevic have been charged with genocide in Srebrenica.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with genocide in Srebrenica said defendant Miodrag Josipovic ordered to him to go to Potocari to monitor the situation and count civilians in July 1995.
At the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, a defence witness said that Bosniak civilians left Srebrenica voluntarily after the town fell to the Bosnian Serb Army in July 1995.
Dragan Kijac, the former head of the Bosnian Serb Army’s intelligence agency, told the Hague Tribunal that he only heard about the Srebrenica killings in 2000.