Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Jurisic says that mass crimes against Muslims and Croats in Kljuc municipality in 1992 were committed by individuals and groups, which were out of control.
Defence witness Vladimir Matovic says, testifying at Radovan Karadzic’s trial at The Hague, that, while they were in Pale in July 1995, the indictee told him that he obtained information about the happenings in Srebrenica from CNN television.
By presenting statements by three Defence witnesses, former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic tried to deny the existence of a plan for the forced persecution of Muslims and Croats from Bosanska Krajina, which is charged upon him.
Following a two-month break in Radovan Karadzic’s trial, Defence witness John (Jovan) Zametica says that the indictee was “a weak president”, who neither had control over the Army, police, government nor municipalities.
During the continuation of Radovan Karadzic’s trial, Hague Tribunal prosecutors deny a testimony by Defence’s ballistic expert Mile Poparic, who said that the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, was not responsible for 17 sniper attacks against civilians in Sarajevo.
Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic presents judges of The Hague International Tribunal with another ballistic expert Mile Poparic, who presents his findings and denies the responsibility of the Republika Srpska Army for sniper attacks against civilians in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.
Testifying at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a former Serb military officer says he did not have adequate information on civilian victims in Sarajevo.
Former United Nations, UN Peace Envoy Yasushi Akashi says at Radovan Karadzic’s trial that, according to UNHCR’s assessment, most Muslims wanted to leave the Srebrenica enclave, which was occupied by the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, in July 1995.
As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, defence witness Rodoljub Djukanovic implied that in April 1992 Bosniaks volunteered to leave Bratunac.