Nezir Merdzic, who is charged with war crimes in Glogova village, Bratunac municipality, in 1992, appears before the District Court in Bijeljina and denies having participated in crimes charged upon him in any way.
Presenting its closing statement, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requests the Court to pronounce Najdan Mladjenovic and Savo Zivkovic guilty of crimes committed in the Bratunac area in 1992 and sentence them in accordance with the law.
As the trial for crimes in Bratunac continues, an additional State Prosecution witness says that the ranks of the Reconnaissance Squad were filled in April and May 1992, but he does not know whether indictee Najdan Mladjenovic was a member of that Squad.
The trial of Nezir Merdzic, who is charged with crimes in Bratunac in 1992, before the District Court in Bijeljina has been postponed due to absence of Prosecution witness Samir Avdic.
Testifying in defence of Najdan Mladjenovic at the trial for crimes in Bratunac, a witness says that he saw masked soldiers, who gave him orders in relation to transportation of civilians, in Hranca village in May 1992.
At the trial of persons charged with crimes against humanity in Bratunac in May, 1992, the witness for the defence said that on the day houses in the village of Hranca burned, defendant Najdan Mladjenovic was, together with a group of neighbours, in nearby woods.
As the trial for crimes in Bratunac continues, a Defence witness says that, on May 3, 1992 indictee Najdan Mladjenovic was with him in a neighbouring village, not in Hranca, where the alleged crimes charged upon him were committed.
As the trial for crimes in the Bratunac area continues, a Defence witness says that no communication system existed in 1992 and that individuals, who had money, could buy walkie-talkie devices.
Richard Wright, an expert in forensics, says at Ratko Mladic's trial at The Hague, that, during an exhumation of 21 mass graves linked to the fall of Srebrenica he found nothing that would indicate that those killed in battles were buried in them.
Testifying at Ratko Mladic’s trial, former Hague Prosecution investigator Dean Manning denies the possibility that people, who were killed in combat, were buried in mass graves associated with the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Bratunac, the first Defence witness says that members of the Territorial Defence from Bratunac, whose commander was indictee Najdan Mladjenovic, did not participate in the disarming of the Muslim population.