Mladic 
Ratko Mladic
News 178
THE HAGUE | 16.05.2013.
MOTHERS FROM SREBRENICA TELL THEIR STORY
Saliha Osmanovic and Mirsada Malagic described how they lost their closest family after Srebrenica fell. They both saw the accused Ratko Mladic in Srebrenica. Osmanovic and Malagic were deported from the Serb territory together with thousands of other women and children
THE HAGUE | 14.05.2013.
WITNESS: THERE WAS HATE, BUT NO DESIRE FOR REVENGE
Former member of the Bratunac Brigade confirmed at the trial of the VRS Main Staff commander that thousands of Muslims captured after the fall of Srebrenica were detained in Bratunac in the night of 13 July 1995. In his replies to Mladic’s defense, the witness confirmed that there ‘was hate among the people’, but no ‘desire for revenge’. It is the defense case that the Srebrenica crimes were the consequence of the locals’ desire for revenge
THE HAGUE | 10.05.2013.
HOW TO ‘SECURE’ DETAINEES
On 12 and 13 July 1995 in Potocari, the RS special police separated men from their families and detained them. The military police only secured the prisoners, claimed a former member of the VRS Bratunac Brigade military police in his evidence at the trial of Ratko Mladic
THE HAGUE | 09.05.2013.
ORAHOVAC KILLING FIELDS
The trial of Ratko Mladic continued with the evidence of a protected witness, who survived a mass-execution of the people from Srebrenica in July 1995 in Orahovac. As he lay underneath the dead bodies in the ‘killing field’ in Orahovac, the witness heard a gravely wounded man ask the soldiers to finish him off. ‘Take it easy’, said one of the killers
THE HAGUE | 09.05.2013.
SURVIVOR FROM RIVER JADAR BANK
The only Bosniak who survived the execution on the Jadar river bank on 13 July 1995 testified today. The 16 Bosniaks were captured and brought before the firing squad two days after Mladic’s forces overran Srebrenica. The witness, testifying for the fourth time before the Tribunal with image protection and under the pseudonym RM 314, described at the trial of Ratko Mladic what he had gone through that day
THE HAGUE | 08.05.2013.
MLADIC’S THREATS TO ‘BLUE HELMETS’
Ratko Mladic’s defense continued the cross-examination of Robert Franken with the claim that the former VRS Main Staff commander didn’t threaten the Dutch Battalion soldiers and the civilians of Srebrenica. Franken answered that at a meeting in Bratunac Mladic told the Dutch officers: ‘From here you can leave, all of you, or stay, all of you, or die, all of you’
THE HAGUE | 07.05.2013.
DID SREBRENICA POPULATION HAVE A CHOICE?
According to the former deputy commander of the Dutch Battalion Robert Franken, Mladic’s defense case that the civilian population in Srebrenica could have remained in the enclave in July 1995 if they had wanted to was ‘pure nonsense’. The choice to stay was theoretical; in practice the things looked quite different, Franken explained
THE HAGUE | 03.05.2013.
DEFENSE: UNPROFOR WAS A SIDE IN CONFLICT
In the cross-examination of the former UNPROFOR chief of staff Cornelis Nicolai, Ratko Mladic’s defense tried to prove that in the summer of 1995 UNPROFOR was not neutral. UNPROFOR ‘sided with’ the BH Army. Both UN and NATO thus became a ‘warring side’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina
THE HAGUE | 02.05.2013.
UNPROFOR’S MISJUDGMENT AND FEARS
In his evidence at Ratko Mladic’s trial, Dutch general Cornelis Nicolai said that he and other UNPROFOR commanders wrongly concluded in July 1995 that the VRS attack on Srebrenica would stop after they took the southern part of the enclave. The UNPROFOR commanders were reluctant to call in close air support because they feared how the Serb side would react
THE HAGUE | 01.05.2013.
DID THE WITNESS SEE THE KILLING IN POTOCARI?
Former soldier in the Dutch Battalion confirmed at the trial of Ratko Mladic that on 13 July 1995 he saw the killing of a Bosniak man from Srebrenica in Potocari. The defense contends that the Dutch soldier didn’t witness the murder because his evidence today diverged from his previous statements
