Republic of Serbian Krajina

Former world champion boxer Mensur Peljto pleaded not guilty to crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war while he was a fighter with the Croatian Defence Council in 1992.

Expelled Croats were free to go back to their homes in Serb-run areas of Croatia even during wartime, a defence witness told the trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic.

An ex-officer with the Bosnian Serb Army testified at his commander Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial that Bosniak forces deployed snipers in Sarajevo but his brigade never targeted civilians.

Thousands of Bosniaks were not driven out of the Rogatica area by Serbs in spring 1992 but actually chose to leave, a former local Serb politician told the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic.

Sergije Veselinovic, the former major of the municipality of Obrovac in Croatia, who said he was an old friend of the war crimes indictee, told the UN-backed court in The Hague on Tuesday that despite being the leader of the Croatian Serbs, Hadzic had very limited power over decisions made by Serbs in Croatia.

VUKOVAR - Members of the Headquarters for Defense of Croat Vukovar removed all bilingual signs in the city after the wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial Cemetery to mark the constitution of the 204th Vukovar Brigade and offenders were brought in for questioning at the local police station.

Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Bozidar Krnojelac testified on behalf of his former commander Ratko Mladic that Bosniak forces torched Serbs’ houses in the Foca area in 1992.

A witness testifying in defence of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic said there was evidence that a deadly attack on a Sarajevo market was faked to blame the Serbs.

Former Croatian Serb commander Gojko Eror was cleared of expelling non-Serb civilians from the village of Berak near Vukovar in 1991, where 28 people were killed, because of a lack of evidence.

A former Bosnian Serb Army officer told the war crimes trial of his commander Ratko Mladic that his brigade had no heavy weapons to attack Sarajevo and didn’t use its sniper bullets for sniping.