Srebrenica massacre

Two unnamed former Bosnian fighters suspected of committing war crimes during the early 1990s conflict, including the torture and murder of civilians, were arrested in the Netherlands.

The Bosnian state court rejected a request for the retrial of Mendeljev Djuric, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide in Srebrenica.

The mass murders of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were committed as a result of a “command from the top”, the genocide trial of former Serb fighter Aleksandar Cvetkovic was told.

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.

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.

Two prosecution witnesses testified at the trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Dragan Sekaric that their relatives were murdered by soldiers when the village of Lozje was attacked in May 1992.

Bosnian police arrested Milenko Trifunovic, who is currently awaiting his sentence for genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, on suspicion of illicit trafficking in arms and other military equipment.

Three men alleged to have been Bosnian Serb soldiers were acquitted of killing a Bosniak man and torturing his teenage son outside a village near Rogatica in 1992.

Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who is on trial for genocide, was one of eight soldiers selected to join a firing squad and shoot Bosniaks from Srebrenica, said another fighter who participated in the killing.

The Hague prosecution said evidence already shows that Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic committed war crimes and his appeal for release halfway through his trial should be denied.