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Ratko Mladic
News 179
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.
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 | 09.04.2013.
MLADIC TRIAL ADJOURNED
The trial of Ratko Mladic was adjourned because of the health of the accused, but will proceed on Wednesday with the evidence of protected witness RM 346. The trial may continue in Mladic’s presence, if he is able to attend, or the judges may decide to invoke the Tribunal’s rules and proceed in his absence by deposing the witness
THE HAGUE | 08.04.2013.
NEW BREAK AT MLADIC’S TRIAL
Ratko Mladic didn’t appear in the courtroom citing health reasons. The Trial Chamber ordered a medical examination of the accused and adjourned the trial until Tuesday 9 April
THE HAGUE | 26.02.2013.
‘APPROPRATE RESPONSE’ TO NON-EXISTENT FIRE
According to a VRS Main Staff document, on 7 April 1995 the VRS ‘responded appropriately’ to ‘very intense fire’ opened by the BH Army on the Famos factory in Ilidza. The VRS fired a 250-kg modified air bomb on the center of Hrasnica. Norwegian major Thorbjorn Overgard said in his evidence at the trial of Ratko Mladic that on that day there was no fire on Ilidza from Hrasnica. On the contrary, it was ‘a normal and quiet morning’, Overgard said
THE HAGUE | 21.02.2013.
WAITING TO DIE
Nermin Karagic testified today at the trial of Ratko Mladic. In late May 1992, he managed to avoid death by sheer luck. He was already lined up by the wall of the football stadium in Ljubija, waiting for his turn to be killed. Ratko Mladic’s defense counsel tried to prove that the reserve police, not the army, were responsible for the Ljubija massacre
THE HAGUE | 20.02.2013.
MLADIC’S DEFENSE CONTENDS ‘SOWS’ WERE ACCURATE WEAPONS
Ratko Mladic’s defense denies that the VRS used modified air bombs. However, in the cross-examination of a former UN observer, Per Brennskag, Mladic’s defense claimed that modified air bombs nicknamed ‘sows’ because of their destructive power and inaccuracy …in fact were an ‘accurate’ weapon
THE HAGUE | 19.02.2013.
MURDERS IN KPD FOCA
A protected witness at the trial of General Ratko Mladic testifies about the murders in the Foca Correctional and Penal Facility (KP Dom). The witness was detained there for more than two and a half years. The defense ‘objected’ to the witness’s claims that some detainees were killed and contested that the witness had ‘any knowledge of it’
THE HAGUE | 15.02.2013.
COUNTING BODIES AT MARKALE
Based on the hospital records, Ratko Mladic’s defense counsel established that 39 persons were killed at the Markale market in February 1994, not 67, as was established by Edin Suljic, an inspector in the Sarajevo Security Services Center. The defense contends that the BH authorities ‘exerted a lot of pressure’ on the Security Services Center staff working on the investigation, in order to ‘massage the figures for the casualties’: ‘to increase the number and use it in propaganda against Serbs’
THE HAGUE | 14.02.2013.
WHICH HALF OF THE HOSPITAL WAS SHELLED MORE?
In the cross-examination of Dr Bakir Nakas, Ratko Mladic’s defense counsel suggested that the Sarajevo Military Hospital had already been shelled while the JNA had still occupied it. According to the defense, the damage to the right-hand half of the southern façade could have been caused by the shells fired from the BH Army positions at Debelo Brdo
