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THE HAGUE | 16.05.2013.
DEFENSE WITNESS OFFENDED ‘PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY’
The prosecution contests the expertise and methodology used by Zorica Subotic, Radovan Karadzic’s ballistics expert. When the prosecutor put it to her that she had deliberately ignored a vast quantity of evidence in her analysis of the artillery incidents in Sarajevo which might lead to wrong conclusions, Subotic said it was a ‘professional and personal insult’
THE HAGUE | 15.05.2013.
KARADZIC’S EXPERT SPECULATES ABOUT MARKALE EXPLOSIONS
The defense’s ballistic expert Zorica Subotic contends at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that the incident at Markale in February 1994 was caused by a ‘stationary’ explosive device. As for the second massacre in August 1995, every scenario is possible apart from the one offered by the prosecution
THE HAGUE | 14.05.2013.
DEFENSE’S BALLISTIC EXPERT: ‘DISTORTED MIRROR-IMAGE’
Radovan Karadzic has called Dr Zorica Subotic, ballistic expert from Belgrade, to help him prove that the VRS artillery did not target the citizens of Sarajevo but the commands, staffs, depots, power substations, factories and other facilities used by the BH Army. Subotic contends that the investigations conducted by the local teams produced a ‘distorted mirror-image’ of the Sarajevo artillery incidents listed in the indictment
THE HAGUE | 13.05.2013.
MARTIC’S DIAGNOSIS OF MILAN BABIC’S MENTAL HEALTH DISMISSED
Having considered Milan Babic’s psychological and psychiatric file, the Trial Chamber established that there was no evidence to show that Milan Babic suffered from any personality disorders that could discredit him as a witness. The joint effort of Radovan Karadzic and Milan Martic to discredit Babic and his testimony at previous trials thus ended in failure
THE HAGUE | 09.05.2013.
‘PSYCHIATRIST’ MARTIC’S SHOWDOWN WITH DECEASED BABIC
At the beginning of his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, former RSK president Milan Martic contested the credibility of his predecessor Milan Babic. Martic said that everyone who got in contact with Babic clearly saw that he suffered from ‘paranoia and narcissism’. Martic described the accused as ‘an extremely tolerant man who doesn’t hate Muslims and Croats’
THE HAGUE | 08.05.2013.
GALIC: OTHERS ORCHESTRATED SARAJEVO DRAMA
Prosecutor Edgerton contested General Stanislav Galic’s claims that his corps opened fire on Sarajevo only in self-defense. To refute the claims, the prosecutor used Galic’s orders to attack residential parts of the city and a video recording showing the shelling of a cemetery during the burial of two children who had been killed by snipers. The witness claimed that the recording was ‘a set-up’ and ‘has nothing to do with real life’
THE HAGUE | 07.05.2013.
FOOLS WHO TARGETED SARAJEVO CIVILIANS
In a bid to convince the Trial Chamber at Radovan Karadzic’s trial that most of the civilian victims in Sarajevo were ‘collateral damage’ of legitimate military attacks, General Stanislav Galic argued neither he nor any of his officers had issued any written order to attack civilians. Galic invited the prosecutor to show him ‘the fool’ who could have written something like that
THE HAGUE | 25.04.2013.
AKASHI: KARADZIC’S NONCHALANTLY DISTORTED TRUTH
The former special envoy of the UN Secretary General Yasushi Akashi complained in the cross-examination that he was once criticized for showing ‘inappropriate cordiality and courtesy’ towards Radovan Karadzic, while in fact he was just trying to ‘maintain the trust of all sides’. Quite soon, Akashi realized Karadzic was very skillful in ‘nonchalantly distorting of the truth’
THE HAGUE | 24.04.2013.
AKASHI TESTIFIES AS DIPLOMAT
After 18 years Yasushi Akashi and Radovan Karadzic met again, this time in the Tribunal’s courtroom. Karadzic was in the dock, Akashi was in the witness stand. The former UN Secretary General’s special envoy was cautious and diplomatic in his answers to the former Republika Srpska president
THE HAGUE | 23.04.2013.
SUBPOENA FOR GENERAL ZIVANOVIC
The Trial Chamber has issued an order compelling General Milenko Zivanovic to testify in Radovan Karadzic’s defense on 8 May 2013. If the former VRS Drina Corps commander complies with the order, this will be his first testimony before the Tribunal
