Former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, Zlatan Celanovic confirms at Ratko Mladic’s trial that, in July 1995 he participated in examination of Muslim captives from Srebrenica, who, according to the charges, later went missing.
Testifying against wartime BosnianSerb military leader Ratko Mladic, a witness says that Serb forces separated Muslimmen from their families in Potocari.
At the trial for crimes in Bratunac the prosecution aims to prove that the indictees were members of the Territorial Defence.
As agreed during a status conference, the Defence of Savo Babic, who is charged with crimes in Bratunac, is due to cross-examine a protected State Prosecution witness on May 20.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former President of the Bratunac Municipal Assembly Ljubislav Simic says that crimes against Bosniaks in that municipality in 1992 were committed by paramilitary formations, which the local authorities could not control, adding that the Bosniak population voluntarily left Srebrenica in July 1995.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Bratunac, a State Prosecution witness says that, when Glogova village was set on fire on May 9, 1992, she heard a soldier named Najdan say that all civilians should be killed.
The trial of Dejan Radojkovic for the crimes committed in July 1995 in Srebrenica was adjourned before the Bijeljina District Court until the Trial Chamber makes a decision on the witness status.
As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, defence witness Rodoljub Djukanovic implied that in April 1992 Bosniaks volunteered to leave Bratunac.
A witness at the trial of fighter Savo Babic for war crimes in the town of Bratunac in 1992 said he saw a brutal murder and the torture of Bosniaks imprisoned at a primary school.