THE HAGUE | 16.04.2013.
WAS KARADZIC AMONG ‘THOSE AT THE TOP’
Former president of the Bratunac municipality Ljubisav Simic confirmed that Miroslav Deronjic informed Karadzic about the ‘events’ in Kravica. On 13 July 1995, about 1,000 detainees were killed there. A couple of minutes later, the witness corrected himself, saying that Deronjic, as the civil commissioner, informed ‘those at the top’ without specifying their names
THE HAGUE | 15.04.2013.
GENERAL GALIC BEGINS TESTIMONY IN KARADZIC’S DEFENSE
General Stanislav Galic is trying to defend Radovan Karadzic using the same arguments he had used at his trial, which ended with a life sentence. Galic contends that the Bosnian Serb army only responded to the attacks from Sarajevo and tried hard not to go overboard and endanger the civilians
THE HAGUE | 15.04.2013.
HERCEG BOSNA JUDGMENT ON 29 MAY 2013
The Trial Chamber headed by the French judge Antonetti will hand down its judgment to the six former Herceg Bosnia leaders on 29 May 2013
THE HAGUE | 14.04.2013.
Next Week at the Tribunal
Next Week at the Tribunal
HEARING ON KARADZIC’S ACQUITTAL FOR GENOCIDE
At Radovan Karadzic’s trial, there will be a hearing on the prosecution’s appeal against the acquittal of the former Republika Srpska president for genocide in Bratunac, Foca, Kljuc, Sanski Most, Vlasenica and Zvornik. Karadzic indicated he would call Stanislav Galic, former commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps. The Srebrenica stage continues at the trial of Ratko Mladic
THE HAGUE | 12.04.2013.
BEATINGS ‘WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON’
Dr Hicham Malla described the beatings and humiliation in the Stajicevo prison camp in Serbia where he was detained after the fall of Vukovar. Dr Malla claims that in Borovo Naselje he treated and fed Goran Hadzic’s 80-year old uncle. ‘That’s gratitude for you, I was beaten while they ruled Krajina’, the witness said
THE HAGUE | 12.04.2013.
SREBRENICA INVESTIGATION, MADLEINE ALBRIGHT AND MLADIC’S DIARIES
Former head of the OTP Srebrenica investigation team Jean Rene Ruez continued his evidence at Ratko Mladic’s trial. Ruez described how his investigation team identified the locations where Bosniaks were captured, detained, executed and buried after the fall of Srebrenica. The bodies were later transferred to new mass graves to cover up the crime
THE HAGUE | 12.04.2013.
JUDGMENT FOR SESELJ ON 30 OCTOBER 2013
The Tribunal has announced that on 30 October 2013, the Serbian Radical Party leader will receive the judgment following his trial for crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia, Vojvodina and BH. The prosecution has called for 28 years in prison while Seselj claimed he was innocent
THE HAGUE | 11.04.2013.
PRESIDENT OF ‘COMMITTEE FOR TRUTH’ ABOUT KARADZIC TESTIFIES IN HIS DEFENSE
Belgrade law professor Kosta Cavoski supported the defense’s argument that Alija Izetbegovic was responsible for the war in BH. Cavoski said that Serbs established crisis staffs before the conflict broke out because they were ‘far-sighted’, not because they had planned to capture the territories they claimed were theirs by force, Cavoski said. The witness admitted that he had sent letters and editions of the journal Christian Thought to Karadzic while he was on the run. The fugitive replied ‘rarely and with delay’
THE HAGUE | 11.04.2013.
STATISTICS OF CRIME
Prosecution expert Visnja Bilic presented the data about the missing, exhumed and identified victims of the crimes in Eastern Slavonia that Goran Hadzic is charged with. Dr Hicham Malla began his evidence today. In November 1991, Dr Malla was detained in the Stajicevo prison camp in Serbia
THE HAGUE | 11.04.2013.
FIVE STAGES OF SREBRENICA INVESTIGATION
In his sixth and probably last testimony at the Tribunal, the former head of the Srebrenica investigation team once again set the stage for the prosecution’s evidence about the crimes committed after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. Ratko Mladic was the commander of the VRS Main Staff at the time: now he is on trial for those crimes
THE HAGUE | 10.04.2013.
PARAMILITARIES WERE UNDER JNA CONTROL
Goran Hadzic’s defense tried to prove that the paramilitary formations in Vukovar were ‘controlled and protected’ by the JNA. Witness Vesna Bosanac confirmed the argument
THE HAGUE | 10.04.2013.
MLADIC REMOVED FROM COURT
Mladic’s loud claims that the witness was ‘making things up’ and ‘lying’ resulted in the judges ordering the accused to be removed from the courtroom. The protected witness, who is a survivor of the execution of the Muslim detainees on the Branjevo Farm on 16 July 1995, continued and ended his evidence without the accused
THE HAGUE | 10.04.2013.
RELIGION DETERMINED MENU IN KULA PRISON RESTAURANT
Former warden of the Kula prison Soniboj Skiljevic contends that during the war the facility served food with no pork to Muslims. The food was prepared using cooking oil, the witness said. At the same time, Skiljevic claimed that prisoners got drunk when they were sent to do forced labor. Former RS prime minister Dusan Kozic denied that Karadzic’s civilian authorities had anything to do with Mladic’s army
THE HAGUE | 09.04.2013.
DODIK BLAMES IZETBEGOVIC, HIGH REPRESENTATIVE AND OTP
As he testified in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik blamed the war and all the bad things that happened in BH on Alija Izetbegovic, the international community’s High Representative and the OTP in The Hague. The SDS headed by Karadzic advocated peace and compromise
THE HAGUE | 09.04.2013.
ONE OUT OF TWO OVCARA VICTIMS WAS PATIENT IN VUKOVAR HOSPITAL
In her sixth and probably last testimony before the Tribunal, Dr Vesna Bosanac confirmed that 93 of the 193 victims identified after the exhumation of the mass grave at Ovcara had been hospital patients. The victims included civilians, soldiers and hospital staff, the witness said
