Bosnian Genocide

A Bosnian Serb prosecution witness recalled on Monday seeing women and children bussed from the Srebrenica area in July 1995 as he testified in the trial of ex-police chief Goran Saric, who is charged in connection with genocide there.

Prosecution witnesses at the trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Dragan Sekaric recalled on Monday how Bosniaks were killed and wounded in an attack on the village of Kokino Selo, also known as Podlozje, in May 1992.

BELGRADE - Rasim Ljajic, chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, said on Monday that Serbia had requested from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to return the entire documentation that had not been used in the proceedings before that court.

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar, alias ‘Lalco’, suspected of participating in burning dozens of Bosniak civilians alive in Visegrad in 1992, could soon be extradited.

Former fighters Bora Kuburic and Radmila Banjac are accused of torturing and humiliating a wounded Bosniak nurse in the village of Rodic near Bosanska Krupa in 1992.

A protected witness told the genocide trial of former Serb fighters Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic that he gave false testimony because he was threatened by Bosnian investigators.

A witness told the war crimes trial of ex-soldier Vitomir Rackovic that in the summer of 1992, he abducted several people from the village of Kabernik who were never seen again.

Police in Prijedor are searching for a man who they suspect of falsely claiming to be collecting financial aid for the families of war crimes convicts from the Bosnian city.

Former Bosnian Croat fighter Drazen Mikulic is being retried after his conviction for war crimes against prisoners at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in 1993 was overturned.

The Bosnian state prosecution appealed for a five-year jail term for former Serb soldier Predrag Prosic, convicted of illegally imprisoning civilians in 1992, while his defence demanded acquittal.