Bosnian Genocide

Ex-soldier Dragan Samardzija, accused of participating in attacks on Bosniak villages near Kljuc that left hundreds dead, did not appear for a plea hearing because he was having treatment in Belgrade.

The Bosnian prosecution asked for an arrest warrant for former Bosnian Serb soldier Milos Zekic, who went on the run after being charged with killing four Bosniak civilians in Sekovici in 1992.

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has requested that the prosecution's motion to re-open its case to present evidence about the Tomasica mass grave be denied as it would cause prejudice to his defence at this stage of the trial, the ICTY said in a statement on Thursday.

The former Bosnian Serb prime minister Vladimir Lukic told Ratko Mladic’s trial in The Hague that outsiders were responsible for wartime rapes and robberies and Serb forces weren’t involved in looting.

The witness recalled how Serb police assaulted her husband and said she heard that defendant Goran Popovic, accused of torturing Bosniaks at the Uzamnica jail camp near Visegrad, mistreated detainees.

The former Bosnian Serb prime minister testified at Ratko Mladic’s trial in The Hague that he heard that individual soldiers committed crimes during wartime, but not the army itself.

A court in Osijek remanded a former member of the notorious Scorpions paramilitary unit in custody ahead of his trial for allegedly killing six civilians from Srebrenica during wartime.

Bosnian Serb forces did not have enough heavy weapons to terrorise the population of Sarajevo at the start of the siege, a defence witness told the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic.

A protected witness was fined by the Bosnian court because he refused to testify at Serb fighter Dragan Sekaric's war crimes trial, claiming he was attacked and his family was not safe.

A defence witness told the Hague Tribunal that Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic couldn’t have ordered the killings of 7,000 Muslims from Srebrenica because it was out of character.