Mladics defence team again disputed the testimony of a key Hague Tribunal prosecution witness who said that the former Bosnian Serb military chief gestured that Srebrenica captives would be killed.
Testifying at the Goran Saric trial, a protected state prosecution witness described the transportation of women and children from Potocari and the surrender of Bosniak civilians in the Srebrenica area in July 1995.
Dragomir Vasic, an ex-police chief charged with genocide soon after becoming an MP in the countrys Serb-led Republika Srpska entity parliament, went on trial in Sarajevo.
A former Bosnian Serb Army officer told his ex-commander Ratko Mladics trial that the defendant never made a gesture indicating that all Bosniak prisoners from Srebrenica would be killed in July 1995.
The Bosnian state court is expected to make a decision regarding the presentation of evidence in the Aleksandar Cvetkovic trial. The decision would bring an end to the presentation of evidence and would lead to the state prosecutions closing statement.
Testifying at the Goran Saric trial, a protected witness known as SG-7 said he saw the shooting of approximately 30 Bosniaks near Konjevic Polje in July 1995.
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.
At todays hearing of the Aleksandar Cvetkovic trial, the trial chamber approved a motion by the state prosecution to watch a video recording of testimony previously given by former UN military observer Joseph Kingori. The video recording will be presented to the Bosnian state court at the next hearing.
A former Bosnian Serb Army commander told Ratko Mladics trial at the Hague Tribunal that he received no order for the mass killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced fourteen persons to 267 years in prison for the mass killing of approximately 1000 residents of Srebrenica in Kravica, in the municipality of Bratunac. Eight persons have been arrested in Serbia for the same crime.