12 November 2015
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.
17 June 2015
Presenting his closing statement, Aleksandar Cvetkovic’s defense attorney said Cvetkovic didn’t participate in the execution of civilians from Srebrenica on the Branjevo Farm in the municipality of Zvornik in July 1995. As such, the defense believes that their client should be acquitted of charges of participating in genocide.
11 May 2015
A Defence witness told Ratko Mladic’s trial in the Hague that in July 1995, Dragomir Pecanac took members of the Bosnian Serb Army to kill Srebrenica Muslims acting without orders.
13 January 2015
Three former members of the 10th Reconnaissance Squad of the Bosnian Serb Army testified as defence witnesses at the trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic, charged with participating in genocide in Srebrenica.
23 September 2014
First defence witnesses told the trial for genocide in Srebrenica that defendant Aleksandar Cvetkovic was a driver and that he did not participate in sabotage.
18 March 2014
Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who is on trial for genocide, was one of eight soldiers selected to join a firing squad and shoot Bosniaks from Srebrenica, said another fighter who participated in the killing.
11 March 2014
Reading out the testimony of Drazen Erdemovic at the Aleksandar Cvetkovic’s trial, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, was postponed for the next week, because the defence did not receive the statements.
4 February 2014
War criminal Stanko Kojic told the genocide trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic that Bosnian Serb troops killed several hundred prisoners from Srebrenica one by one in order not to waste any bullets.
16 September 2013
The Prosecution requested from the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina a retrial or a harsher sentence for Bozidar Kuvelja, who was sentenced by a first instance verdict to 20 years for the crime committed in Srebrenica.
16 August 2013
The Bosnian prosecutor said Aleksandar Cvetkovic, extradited from Israel over his suspected involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, should be remanded in custody because he might flee.
31 July 2013
Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, presents Franc Kos as Defence witness before The Hague Tribunal. Kos confirms that, in his capacity as member of the RS Army, he participated in the shooting of hundreds of Srebrenica Muslims on Branjevo military farm, near Zvornik, in July 1995.
17 July 2013
The Defence of Ratko Mladic suggests at his trial before the Hague Tribunal that, during the offensive on Srebrenica in July 1995 Republika Srpska, RS President Radovan Karadzic “had direct contacts” with Radislav Krstic, Commander of the Drina Corps with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who commanded the attack.
10 July 2013
The ICTY and Bosnia’s state court have together convicted 27 persons for the 1995 atrocity, with nine judgments still pending before the state court.
24 June 2013
A former intelligence officer with the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says, testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, that he first heard about the shooting of thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, which happened in July 1995, at the end of that year or in 1996, although he was present in the enclave two days after its fall.
19 June 2013
Testifying at the trial of Ratko Mladic, Petar Salapura, former Chief of the Intelligence Administration of the Main Headquarters with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, confirms that members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad participated in the shooting of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.