In May 2000 – in the hopes of his 'imminent arrest', the then chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte joined the two indictments against Radovan Karadzic into one, in order to be able to try him together with Momcilo Krajisnik who had come to the UN Detention Unit a month earlier

Former Bosnian Serb political leader, who spent past thirteen years as one of the most wanted fugitives from international justice, was transferred this morning to the UN Detention Unit. Chief prosecutor Brammertz will address the press today at noon. Karadzic will most likely be brought before a Tribunal judge tomorrow

Former Bosnian Serbs leader Radovan Karadzic had his initial appearance before a Tribunal judge. He says he wants to defend himself, but adds he does have an ‘invisible advisor’. Karadzic postponed entering his plea on the charges in the indictment until 29 August 2008. Karadzic claims he was thinking about going to The Hague in 1996, 1997 and 1998 but decided not to for fear of being ‘liquidated’ because of a purported agreement with Holbrooke

After he failed to get Karadzic immunity from prosecution – and he had undertaken to do so in an agreement in June 1996 – Richard Holbrooke ‘switched to Plan B: the liquidation of Radovan Karadzic’, says the accused in his first motion to the ICTY

Radovan Karadzic has submitted his motion for the disqualification of the Dutch judge Alphons Orie in the pre-trial stage of the proceedings, and has addressed it to the Tribunal’s President. He should have waited until the beginning of the trial and addressed the motion to the president of the Trial Chamber hearing his case

The case of the former Bosnian Serb political leader charged with genocide and other serious crimes in BH has been reassigned to Trial Chamber III: Judge Robinson, Judge Bonomy and Judge Antonetti. This decision was not motivated by Karadzic’s motion for the disqualification of Judge Orie, but has rendered it irrelevant

At his further appearance before the Tribunal, Radovan Karadzic refused to enter his plea on the counts in the indictment. In accordance with the Tribunal’s rules, Judge Bonomy entered a plea of not guilty on all counts, charging Karadzic with genocide and other crimes in BH. Noting that he ‘stopped using a false name’, Karadzic invited the Tribunal to stop ‘operating under false pretenses as a court of the international community whereas in fact it is a NATO court’. The judge was ‘very much taken aback’ by the prosecution, which has yet to file an amended indictment

Radovan Karadzic's defense strategy, as became apparent at the status conference today, is to use every opportunity to drag the proceedings on, hoping that the Tribunal will be closed down before his trial finishes or even before it starts. Karadzic's indictment against Holbrooke was today amended to include new accusations against the Contact Group and Security Council

The new amended indictment against Radovan Karadzic charges him with two instances of the crime of genocide: the first one was committed in ten BH municipalities between 31 March 1992 and the end of 1992 and the other in Srebrenica in the summer 1995. The prosecution believes that the changes made in the indictment will allow a more efficient and faster presentation of its case

Karadzic today filed a motion seeking the disclosure of information necessary for the preparation of his defense. As he notes in his motion, his defense will rely on Holbrooke’s promise of immunity and the fact that the promise can be ‘attributable to the ICTY’ since it was given on behalf of the UN Security Council members or in consultation with them

Radovan Karadzic’s motion seeking and order requiring the Prosecution to allow inspection and disclosure of certain information it may have in its possession which are, according to the accused, material for his defense, has been partly dismissed and partly denied. The Trial Chamber found that part of the motion to inspect the archives was premature and sent to the wrong address while in the part seeking the disclosure of information, the accused “has not met the required criteria outlined for the issuance of the Chamber’s order”

After the Trial Chamber ruled that Karadzic’s motion seeking leave to inspect the prosecution archives and for disclosure of information in possession of the prosecution was sent to the wrong address, Karadzic now went directly to the prosecution, seeking documents ‘material to the preparation of his defense’

Radovan Karadzic will appear before the court first on 28 October 2008 at a status conference in his case. On 3 November 2008, Karadzic will start his testimony as a defense witness in the appellate proceedings in the Momcilo Krajisnik case; his testimony is due to last until 5 November. If the Trial Chamber confirms the amended indictment against him, Karadzic will be called to enter his plea on the new counts

While the accused Karadzic believes that his case is proceeding at ‘unprecedented speed’ the judge notes that the case hasn’t moved forward since Karadzic’s arrest and transfer to The Hague

Karadzic alleges that he was ‘demonized in the media’ – the ICTY prosecution and Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador, led the witch hunt – and now he wants his chance to respond. He has asked the ICTY president to revoke the Registry decision prohibiting him any contact with a Dutch journalist

The prosecution has demanded that the judges dismiss the motion filed by Radovan Karadzic to search the archives and obtain information related to his alleged agreement with Richard Holbrooke. ‘Even if material concerning the alleged immunity agreement existed, it would be legally irrelevant to the present proceedings”, the prosecution maintains in its motion

Radovan Karadzic supports the joinder of his case and the case against Stojan Zupljanin and Mico Stanisic, saying that it would ‘make his defense easier’. The prosecution opposes the joinder; as they put it, it would ‘not serve the interest of justice, rights of the accused’ and would lengthen the proceedings

The Trial Chamber has granted Karadzic leave to appeal the Chamber’s December 2008 decision, rejecting most of his requests. Karadzic wanted permission to ‘inspect’ the prosecution archives and asked that all documents referring to his alleged agreement with Holbrooke be disclosed. The accused complained at today’s status conference about ‘NATO storming’ his family home

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is not opposed ‘in principle’ to the proposed amendments in the indictment against him, but he believes that judicial economy would be best served if he were to first stand trial "for one of the components of the proposed amendments to the indictment". A decision could then be made about the remaining three components

The former Republika Srpska president was supposed to enter his plea on the counts in the new indictment, charging him with double genocide in BH. Instead, there was a debate about whether Karadzic was really defending himself or ‘just pretending’ to do that

Former Republika Srpska president refused to enter his plea on the amended indictment. As he put it, he is ‘challenging the indictment based on my agreement with the international community represented by Richard Holbrooke’. Judge Bonomy proceeded to enter a plea of not guilty on Karadzic’s behalf to all eleven counts in the indictment and called the ICTY Registrar to schedule the beginning of the trial

At the status conference, Radovan Karadzic has announced his intention to contest everything at his upcoming trial, including the agreed facts proposed by the proposition, with the exception of ‘the weather’. ‘If they say it was sunny, I will agree that it was’, Karadzic said

The Trial Chamber today issued its work plan, setting out the dates for the remaining part of the pre-trial stage in the proceedings against the former president of Republika Srpska. Karadzic’s trial may begin in late August or early September 2009 at the earliest

The Appeals Chamber has rejected in its entirety Radovan Karadzic’s appeal against the decision on the disclosure of the documents pertaining to the immunity agreement with Holbrooke. The issues raised by the accused are ‘moot’, the Chamber found

As the chairperson of the BH Human Rights Council, set up by the Council of Europe, Judge Michelle Picard ‘advocated Muslim victims and was against the Serb entity’, Karadzic claims. This may create an impression of her partiality. Karadzic will be challenging the legitimacy of the Dayton Accords which established the Republika Srpska

At the status conference in the case against the former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic, pre-trial judge Bonomy has indicated that the Trial Chamber would soon rule on the pending motions filed by the accused on the jurisdiction and form of the indictment. Karadzic has been given a deadline to file his new motion on ‘immunity’: 25 May 2009

‘Where and accused lacks the requisite knowledge of the law or legal procedure to the extent that it will substantially and persistently obstruct the proper and expeditious conduct of the trial’, the Appeals Chamber ruled in its decision, ‘the solution is not the funding of highly experienced legal associates, but rather the curtailment of his right to self-representation’

At an impromptu press conference, Karadzic’s legal adviser Peter Robinson has told the reporters he has just filed the motion challenging the Tribunal’s jurisdiction and calling for an evidentiary hearing where the court would hear evidence on the promises of immunity Karadzic received in return for withdrawing from politics and public life

In July 1996, at the talks in Belgrade on the removal of Radovan Karadzic from political and public life, Richard Holbrook led Momcilo Krajisnik and Aleksa Buha to believe that Tribunal in The Hague would simply ‘disappear’ after the elections held in BH in September 1996

In addition to four ‘official’ legal advisers, paid by the Tribunal’s Registry, Radovan Karadzic has some thirty ‘unofficial’ advisers and assistants from law schools all over the world, from Holland to New Zealand and Australia. They all do research and draft the innumerable motions the accused has been heaping over the Trial Chamber on a daily basis. They do it pro bono

After the prosecution disclosed 175,000 pages of ‘potentially exculpatory material’, the accused said he was amazed he had been indicted despite all that material. The Swedish ambassador informed the Trial Chamber that Minister Bildt ‘has no information on the alleged immunity agreement’. Judge Bonomy nevertheless believes that it ‘would be worthwhile’ for the minister to agree to talk about this issue with Karadzic’s associates

The prosecution has requested that the judges call Lord David Owen to give evidence as a court witness in the case of Radovan Karadzic. Lord Owen is reluctant to testify as a prosecution witness in order not to "jeopardize the future independence and impartiality" of international negotiators

As the Trial Chamber considered Karadzic’s motion challenging the jurisdiction of the Tribunal because of a purported immunity agreement, it didn’t try to establish what and if anything Holbrook had promised to the accused. Acting on the assumption that such an agreement really does exist, the Trial Chamber considered its possible legal effects

Former Bosnian Serb leader has asked the Trial Chamber to issue an order to the government of Norway compelling it to deliver documents that, according to him, prove that the USA armed the BH Army. Karadzic also wants the Norwegian intelligence service to provide documents that, he claims, confirm that the BH Army, not the VRS, was responsible for both explosions at the Markale town market

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic announced his intention to ‘clarify what had happened in BH and in Srebrenica in particular’ during the upcoming trial expected to begin in September 2009. Defense experts plan using DNA analysis to contest everything related to the Srebrenica victims: their number, identity and time and place of death

Presiding judge Iain Bonomy has said today that the Radovan Karadzic case was ready for trial. Indicating his intention to contest all adjudicated facts, including the responsibility of the Bosnian Serbs for the Markale town Market massacre, Karadzic asked to be given al the documents on the SDA and Alija Izetbegovic’s intercepted conversation

As ordered by the Pre-Trial Chamber, the OTP tonight proposed ways in which the scope of the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic may be reduced. The prosecution has decided not to remove any of the counts in the indictment, warning the judges that it would be ’neither desirable nor necessary" and "contrary to the interests of a fair and expeditious trial’

At the first status conference with Judge O-Gon Kwon presiding, the parties were told that the trial of the former Republika Srpska president would begin on 19 October 2009. Karadzic claims he ‘cannot be ready to proceed to trial’ in such a short time. The Trial Chamber asked the prosecution to come up with ways in which it could further reduce its case, in order for the trial to be completed in two and a half years as planned

The Trial Chamber with Judge Kwon presiding granted Karadzic leave to appeal against the decision to open the trial on 19 October 2009. However, Karadzic’s motion to postpone the trial was rejected pending the decision of the Appeals Chamber

After giving careful consideration to the judges’ suggestions for further ‘reductions’ of the indictment against Radovan Karadzic, the prosecution concludes that the suggested reductions would gain little time and lose a lot in terms of a fair presentation of a case that had led to the founding of the Tribunal in The Hague

In a motion of 18 September 2009, the prosecution refused to make any further cuts to Karadzic’s indictment; in his reply Karadzic implies that the prosecution is motivated by political instead of legal reasons. In Karadzic’s words, the prosecution has bowed down to the pressure from ‘the streets of Sarajevo’ and it ‘should be ashamed of itself’

The prosecution and Radovan Karadzic have submitted to the Trial Chamber their proposals for the way in which the trial should proceed. The accused has asked that his legal adviser and case managers be present in the courtroom, and that the Chamber inquire of the protected witness whether he or she wishes protective measures to continue and for what reasons. Karadzic will deliver his opening statement at the start of the trial

At a pre-trial conference in the Radovan Karadzic case the judges have announced the trial will start on 21 October 2009 if the Appeals Chamber rejects the appeal of the accused by 14 October 2009. If the Appeals Chamber fails to reach a decision by then, the trial will be postponed. The judges refrained from further cutting down the indictment against Karadzic, opting instead to impose strict limits on the time for the prosecution case

The Appeals Chamber has dismissed the appeal of the accused against the Trial Chamber’s decision to start the trial on 21 October 2009. The Appeals Chamber has ordered that the trial of the former president of Republika Srpska could start seven days after the accused has received the final version of the indictment. Since the prosecution was ordered to serve the indictment by 19 October 2009, the trial might finally open on Monday, 26 October 2009

The purported immunity agreement, the Appeals Chamber has concluded, would not bind the Tribunal in any way even if it were proven that Holbrooke did act on behalf of the Security Council or the OTP in The Hague. In order to be binding, the agreement would either have to be ratified by a Security Council resolution or by the consent of the judges or a Trial Chamber. Without that, the prosecution cannot withdraw the already confirmed indictment

The Trial Chamber with Korean judge O-Gon Kwon presiding has scheduled the trial of Radovan Karadzic to start on Monday, 26 October 2009 at 9 a.m. The prosecution will first call evidence on the counts in the indictment pertaining to the crimes in Sarajevo

The prosecution has filed the operative indictment against Radovan Karadzic, with charges of genocide and other crimes in BH from 1992 to 1995, in compliance with the Appeals Chamber’s order to the prosecution to serve the indictment seven days before the trial date, set for 26 October 2009

Radovan Karadzic’s motion to recuse Judge Melville Baird from Trinidad and Tobago ‘has no merit’, concluded the three-member panel with Judge Karmel Agius presiding

In a motion to the Trial Chamber, Radovan Karadzic has indicated he would refuse to appear in courtroom on Monday, 26 October, the day his trial is scheduled to start. The unequivocal boycott announcement is contained only in the English translation of the motion; the Serbian original in Cyrillic doesn’t have it. The Tribunal ‘at the moment has no indication that the procedure will not go ahead as scheduled’

By confirming that the trial will start as scheduled in the face of Karadzic’s threat of boycott, the judges have shown they have no intention of letting any of the accused dictate when, and if at all, they will be tried before the Tribunal

The judges and prosecution have labeled Radovan Karadzic’s failure to appear at the start of his own trial for genocide and other crimes in BH as ‘essential and persistent obstruction of proper and expeditious trial’; this is one of the grounds for denying or restricting the right of the accused to self-representation. The prosecution will present its opening statement tomorrow

Eminent Dutch lawyer Michail Wladimiroff, who defended the first accused to be tried before the Tribunal and acted as amicus curiae in the Slobodan Milosevic case, contends that the Tribunal made a wise move when it decided not to go to war with the accused on the first day of his trial over a minor issue; the court was due to hear just the opening statement. The real trial has not started yet

The Trial Chamber decided to proceed with the trial today in the absence of the accused issuing a warning to Karadzic: if he fails to appear next Monday at the conclusion of the prosecution’s opening statement, the judges may decide to go on with the trial without him and to impose counsel on him

The prosecution began its opening statement with some self-incriminating quotes from Radovan Karadzic himself, which indicate the mens rea and intent of the accused. The prosecution also quoted Karadzic playing up his role as the president and supreme commander, the man who makes decisions and issues orders and has ‘everything in hand’

Not only did Karadzic, as the VRS supreme commander, order the attack on Srebrenica: he regularly received reports on the progress of the operation, the deportation of the women and children, and the capture and execution of the men, the prosecutor said in the opening statement. On the eve of the hearing where the way in which the trial is to proceed if Karadzic persists with his boycott will be discussed, the judges once again warned Karadzic

At the hearing on the way in which the trial might proceed if the accused decides to continue his boycott, Radovan Karadzic repeated he had ‘insufficient time to prepare the defense’. Both the Trial Chamber and the Appeals Chamber have already rejected the argument. The prosecution proposed that the Chamber should either appoint ‘a standby counsel’ or ‘impose counsel’ on the accused. According to the prosecution, compelling the accused to attend the trial, ‘by force if necessary’, is also an option

The Trial Chamber has ordered the ICTY Registrar to appoint defense counsel to represent the interests of the accused, in case that Karadzic makes another attempt in any way to obstruct the proper and expeditious conduct of the trial, scheduled to continue on 1 March 2010

Radovan Karadzic applied for certification to appeal the Trial Chamber’s decision on appointment of counsel dated 5 November 2009. The appointed counsel should take over as his representative if Karadzic tries again to obstruct the proper and expeditious conduct of the trial, scheduled to continue on 1 March 2010

On the orders of the Trial Chamber, the ICTY Registry appointed British lawyer Richard Harvey as defense counsel to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Harvey will take over Karadzic’s defense if the accused continues ‘to obstruct proper and expeditious conduct of the trial’

The Trial Chamber says Karadzic’s application for certification to appeal decision on appointment of counsel is ‘premature’. The judges note that "the Chamber has not yet assigned counsel to the accused"; the Registry has simply appointed a counsel who ‘might be assigned’ to Karadzic if he continues to be "obstructive"

The judges have once again reminded Karadzic it would be better for him to channel his efforts and resources into preparations for the trial – scheduled to resume on 1 March 2009 – than into writing motions, ‘out of moral duty’, when he knows "they are not going to bear fruit"

Since he received no reply to his first letter from October, Karadzic again wrote to the Security Council, asking it to pass a resolution granting him immunity from criminal prosecution for genocide and war crimes

The Trial Chamber denied Karadzic’s motion to vacate Registry decision to appoint Richard Harvey his stand-by counsel; Harvey will take over Karadzic’s defense if the accused continue with obstructive behavior when the trial continues on 1 March 2010

In his appeal against the appointment of standby counsel, Radovan Karadzic took Vojislav Seselj as an example to prove that at the Tribunal, obstruction, disrespect for the rules, disobedience and vulgarity pay as a way of getting more rights

Former Republika Srpska president claims that the position of his defense has further deteriorated since the trial was interrupted in November 2009. Karadzic, indicted for genocide and other crimes in BH, has announced he will call for his trial to be postponed; it has been scheduled to continue on 1 March 2010

Karadzic filed his motion to postpone the trial, but suggested that the court should retain the motion under submission until ICTY President and the Appeals Chamber rule on his appeals against the decision of the Registry on the way his defense is financed and the appointment of his stand-by counsel. If the Tribunal’s President upholds the Registrar’s decision on the financing of the defense, Karadzic threatens to refuse ‘participating in the trial…which would be a farce’

In its decision, the Trial Chamber notes that the minimal guaranteed rights of the accused include the option for the accused to either represent themselves or to opt for legal counsel of their choice. Karadzic wants both, to represent himself and to choose his legal counsel to be appointed if Karadzic continues to obstruct justice

Radovan Karadzic seeks documents related to the effort to arm the BH Army in order to show that ‘nothing was as it seemed’. The representatives of Germany, France, Croatia and Iran noted that they either didn’t have documents the accused had requested or couldn’t disclose them for national security reasons. Due to ‘technical difficulties’, BH representatives were not able to attend the hearing today

The Trial Chamber ordered the trial to proceed on 1 and 2 March 2010 with the opening statement of the accused. On 3 March 2010, the prosecution will call its first witnesses. The standby counsel is invited to be in the courtroom for the opening statement of the accused. The judges will then decide on his future role in the trial

Former Republika Srpska president admits he was an ‘important person’ holding ‘some functions’ but denied any responsibility for the war and the crimes perpetrated in it. Karadzic, charged with genocide and other crimes in BH, blamed them on ‘the conspirators’ core’ of the Muslim SDA headed by Izetbegovic

How Bosnian Serbs managed to survive in the face of ‘the Muslim terror’, ‘the tripartite pact’ by Tudjman, Kucan and Izetbegovic, and the campaign waged by NATO and Western countries on their enemies’ side? The trial has been adjourned pending the decision of the Appeal Chamber on Karadzic’s motion to grant him additional time to prepare his defense

The accused filed an appeal against the Trial Chamber’s decision of 26 February 2010 to dismiss his motion to suspend the prosecution case until 17 June 2010. Karadzic is on trial for genocide and other crimes in BH

The Appeals Chamber dismissed in its entirety the motion filed by the former Republika Srpska president against the Trial Chamber’s decision rejecting his motion to postpone the prosecution case until 17 June 2010. Karadzic is on trial for genocide and other crimes in BH

After failing to further delay the proceedings, Radovan Karadzic has asked for the suspension of the trial because of the ‘cumulative effect’ of the Trial Chamber’s decisions to take judicial notice of adjudicated facts and admit statements and evidence of witnesses from other cases; those decisions have ‘deprived him of the right to fair trial’

The accused contends that the admission in the present case of adjudicated facts and statements or transcripts of evidence from previous trials allows in ‘untested evidence’ that would influence the final decision to a ‘decisive extent’. The judges dismissed the claims of the accused as ‘wholly unfounded’

The accused has notified the Trial Chamber that he would need a total of 155 hours to cross-examine the first twelve witnesses; the prosecution will take 25 hours for their examination-in chief. If the Trial Chamber grants Karadzic’s request, the examination of April witnesses would not be completed by the Tribunal’s summer recess in the second half of July 2010

The prosecution has finally managed to call its first witness at the trial of the former Republika Srpska president, after two failed attempts: the first time was in late October 2009, when the accused refused to appear in the courtroom. The prosecution’s second attempt in early March 2010 failed again because of Karadzic’s motion for stay of proceedings. Karadzic faces charges of genocide and other crimes in BH

In the cross-examination of the first prosecution witness, Radovan Karadzic contended that the Serb authorities ‘didn’t force Muslims to leave Sanski Most; on the contrary, the Muslims forced the Serb authorities to allow them to leave’. The Serb authorities ‘tried to discourage them with various procedures’ from leaving town. The ‘procedures’ included signing a statement handing over their houses and other property to the Serb authorities

In his cross-examination of Sulejman Crncalo, the accused contended that the Serb authorities were ‘very responsible and considerate’ towards Muslims who left Pale of their own free will. The accused asked Crncalo if there were some ‘racial differences’ between the two of them. The witness replied that there were no obvious differences. ‘As for what is inside of us – that’s for us to know’, he added

The trial of Radovan Karadzic continues with the evidence of a protected witness. In July 1995, the witness survived a mass execution of people from Srebrenica at Orahovac. The accused put it to the witness that Muslims had been preparing for the war against Serbs and not the other way round, adding that ‘nobody would have died’ if they hadn’t resisted. The witness shot back that it was ‘rubbish’

According to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the protected prosecution witness KDZ 064 ‘made up’ the execution in Orahovac in July 1995. Karadzic also claims that Srebrenica was ‘left’ to the Serb troops and that the residents were not forced to leave, but decided to do that on their own. ‘I was there one hundred percent and you can still claim that everything that is, is not, and what isn’t, is’, the witness responded

Former US ambassador Herbert Okun says that Karadzic was obsessed with the genocide against Serbs in the World War II. Karadzic spoke about that all the time, Okun noted. The prosecution tendered into evidence 16 notebooks in which Okun took his notes. He recorded Karadzic as saying that ‘different ethnic communities cannot live together in BH’. Okun also wrote that Karadzic never denied any accusations of ethnic cleansing, and that he admitted he had control over the Bosnian Serb forces and endorsed the partition of BH, with the biggest chunk of the territory going to the Serbs

In his cross-examination of Herbert Okun, Karadzic suggested that Alija Izetbegovic wanted his own nation to suffer in order to raise its ‘awareness’, in line with the Islamic Declaration. The witness agreed that Muslims suffered, but their suffering was caused, as he said, because ‘you expelled them from their homes, detained them in prison camps, killed and persecuted them’

In his cross-examination, US ambassador Herbert Okun told Radovan Karadzic that ‘there were no angels in BH’. ‘Everybody lied’ and behaved badly, but Serbs were at the top in terms of ‘the quantity of atrocities’. Karadzic tried to convince the witness and the judges that Republika Srpska was a ‘state with the rule of law and humanity’

Radovan Karadzic and Ambassador Herbert Okun disagreed about a set of documents: the former claimed that the documents show that Republika Srpska authorities advocated peace and respect of international conventions, while the latter argued that the same documents show that there was a ‘gap between words and deeds’. In Okun’s view, the actual situation was completely different. Okun found Karadzic’s claim that the West ‘wanted to neutralize Muslims using Serbs and Croats as its tools’ ‘not only nonsensical but ridiculous too’

Former head nurse in the pediatric surgery ward in the Kosevo Hospital described the terrible effects the artillery and sniper terror campaign pursued by the Bosnian Serb army had on Sarajevo’s youngest residents. Karadzic responded by claiming that Kosevo was a ‘large military camp’ and the hospital itself a ‘place where Serbs were tortured’. ‘Have you any conscience at all?’ the witness asked Karadzic

Ignoring the evidence of Fatima Zaimovic about the children treated in the Kosevo Hospital for wounds sustained in the artillery and sniper attacks by the Bosnian Serb army, Karadzic insisted that Sarajevo and the Kosevo Hospital were ‘military strongholds’, that Serb doctors were persecuted and ‘Muslim soldiers killed their own people’. When the witness told the accused to repent, Karadzic said ‘the Islamic Declaration is to blame for everything’

Describing the situation in wartime Sarajevo, UN official David Harland said that the level of the terror campaign against the city would vary, depending on the degrees of pressure by the international community on the Bosnian Serb leadership. According to Harland, this showed that the ‘terror tap’ was turned on and off at the government top

Former high-ranking official of the UN BH mission David Harland agreed with Karadzic’s claim that in some parts of Sarajevo the BH Army held ‘dominant’ positions. Harland insisted that hundreds of thousands of civilians in Sarajevo were targeted by the artillery and sniper terror campaign waged by the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps. According to Harland, any attempt to shift the blame for that to the other side would be ‘an inversion of reality’

Radovan Karadzic is trying to prove that in the summer of 1995 the VRS never intended to take Srebrenica and Zepa; constant attacks launched from the enclaves finally forced the VRS to do it. Prosecution witness David Harland denied Karadzic’s claim that no buildings in Sarajevo were destroyed by the Serbs

Responding to the accused Radovan Karadzic, David Harland noted that the defense arguments about the first massacre at the Markale Town Market in February 1994 were ‘contradictory’. On the one hand, Karadzic argued that the incident was ‘staged’ and that there was no explosion, and on the other, he claimed that the shell was fired from the territory controlled by the BH Army and not from Serb positions

The Trial Chamber rejected Radovan Karadzic’s repeated demand to delete war reporters from the list of prosecution witnesses. Among them is Aernaut Van Lynden, who covered the war for the Sky News network. The Trial Chamber expressed its concern over Karadzic’s profligacy

As he testifies for the seventh time before the Tribunal, Sky News war reporter Aernout Van Lynden recounts how the accused told him one evening in September 1992 that ‘Sarajevo is a Serb city’. According to Van Lynden, the accused said that Muslims were Turks and it was ‘impossible’ to live with them. The accused told the witness that the problem could be solved if a wall like the one in Berlin could be built to divide the Serb and Muslim parts of the city

In his cross-examination of prosecution witness Aernout Van Lynden, former Republika Srpska president tried to show that the Western media’s reporting on the events in Sarajevo was ‘tendentious and wrong’. The Western media created a ‘distorted image which was detrimental for the Serb side’

As the cross-examination of war reporter Aernout Van Lynden drew to a close, Radovan Karadzic spiced up his argument with quotes from General Michael Rose’s book. As a new witness, Colm Doyle, took the stand, the prosecution tendered into evidence a video recording of Karadzic’s speech in the Bosnian Serb Assembly. In his address Karadzic compared living with Muslims to cats and dogs living together

The prosecution has asked for permission to add the name of Almir Begic to the witness list. A prosthetic leg recorded at a video tape belonged to Begic’s late father Camil Begic. Radovan Karadzic used the video tape to prove that the Markale town market massacre in February 1994 was ‘staged’ and that the prosthetic leg was ‘planted’ there

In his cross-examination of Colm Doyl, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that the Bosnian Muslims were the first to get arms and caused the conflicts with the Serbs, claiming that in early 1991, Izetbegovic first set up a secret committee for the defense of the Muslims, and later that year, made a ‘secret war alliance’ against Yugoslavia and the JNA with Kucan and Tudjman, and that by 1992, he had ‘a secret army’ of more than 120,000 armed troops

Yet again, Karadzic tried to make Colm Doyle change his mind about who had started the war in BH. Karadzic said that ‘Muslim leadership’ responded to his ‘peace platforms’ with directives for ‘a total war’. The witness begged to differ

Completing his cross-examination of Colm Doyle, the accused Karadzic used his own letters and Mladic’s directives to prove that the Bosnian Serb leaders ‘advocated peace and defended themselves’, while the Muslims ‘violated all agreements and attacked’. Karadzic took offense when Doyle claimed that the Bosnian Serbs agreed to hand the Sarajevo Airport over to the UN troops after the international reaction to the bread queue massacre

The judges’ patience is wearing thin: on Friday, the accused was warned that the Chamber would be compelled to curb the time for cross-examination of prosecution witnesses, unless he takes their advice seriously and stops wasting court time. The alternative is for the trial to run into 2020

Completing his cross-examination of the Sky News TV war reporter, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that Western journalists were to blame for the Bosnian Serbs’ bad image. As Karadzic put it, they were ‘susceptible to the charms of young Bosnian women’ the Bosnian government ‘planted’ as interpreters. American historian Robert Donia is the prosecution’s next witness

Prosecution’s expert witness Robert Donia gave evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic today. He spoke about the strategic goals of Bosnian Serbs, the SDS’s ‘lost battle’ to prevent BH independence and the effort to rewrite the borders of municipalities. In the first part of his cross-examination, Karadzic lectured the court on history, complaining that Bosniaks ‘usurped’ Bosniandom, that Croats ‘stole the language’ and Americans failed to deliver on their promise to give Serbs access to sea

Yesterday Karadzic said that he too felt as a Bosniak but this identity was not available for him because ‘the Muslims usurped’ it. Today Karadzic noted that he considered himself to be a Herzegovinian although he was born in Montenegro. He went on to describe how his ‘love for Sarajevo’ was born

Radovan Karadzic has called on the judges to reconsider their oral decision prohibiting him this week from examining US historian Robert Donia about the payments he has received from the prosecution for his expert reports

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of prosecution expert Robert Donia, who said the Bosnian Serb leadership pursued a separatist policy ‘long before Yugoslavia ran out of options’

Radovan Karadzic continues his cross-examination of prosecution expert Robert Donia. Not pleased with the moniker ‘god of war’ - as he was called in October 1991 by a Croat delegate in the BH Assembly - Karadzic tried to show that he had in fact been a ‘peace-loving man’. The words that the others interpreted as threats were in fact ‘warnings’ to Muslims to ‘deter them from war’

On the sixth day of his cross-examination of the US historian, Karadzic argued that the SDS took only ‘defensive and protective measures’ to defend the Serb population. The witness begged to differ, describing the SDS moves as ‘aggressive’. The accused took offense, saying Donia’s words sounded ‘more like an accusation and defamation than a reply’

Radovan Karadzic completed his cross-examination of US historian Robert Donia. In the end, Radovan Karadzic asked that the witness’s report on the establishment of Republika and the positions of its leadership be rejected as ‘unprofessional, biased, and political’. It was ‘not an expert report at all’, Karadzic claimed

Prosecution military expert Richard Philips contends that the VRS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps emerged from the ‘remains of the JNA 4th Corps’. Radovan Karadzic opposed this claim in his cross-examination, arguing that the frontlines in Sarajevo were set up and manned by the ‘armed people’ who ‘organized themselves’ in their own neighborhoods to confront ‘the Muslim army’, the term Karadzic uses for the BH Army

In the final part of his cross-examination of military expert Richard Philips, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic tried to clear up the ‘misconception’ that the SRK was a ‘huge force fighting against an unarmed city’. According to him, it was ‘a people’s army’ and difficult to control

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the court heard testimony of the former head of UN observers in Sarajevo John Wilson. Wilson described the artillery and sniper fire targeting Sarajevo as ‘indiscriminate, widespread and inappropriate’. Karadzic asked the witness if he had noticed that Karadzic ‘always did his best to avoid any civilian casualties in Sarajevo’. Wilson said he didn’t

Continuing his cross-examination of John Wilson, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that General Ratko Mladic’s threat to ‘raze Sarajevo to the ground’ on 25 May 1992 was ‘just a bluff’. Karadzic argued that the recording of the intercepted conversation in which, three days later, Mladic ordered his troops to open fire on Velesici, Pofalici and other parts of Sarajevo was ‘fabricated’

In the final part of his cross-examination of Australian general John Wilson, Karadzic highlighted ‘a hundred important facts’ the witness ‘had to know’ – in Karadzic’s view – at the time when he was the head of UN observers and military expert of the international peace negotiators

Former member of the UN peace-keeping force testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic under protective measures, a pseudonym and with voice and image distortion. The witness described how the Bosnian Serb forces ‘maintained an atmosphere of terror’ firing about 1,200 shells daily on Sarajevo and its inhabitants

Using ‘secret’ documents of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps and the Serbian MUP, Karadzic is trying to prove that ‘Muslims from time to time shelled their own territory, their own folk and units’. Karadzic contends that the documents are ‘accurate and detailed’

In the final part of his cross-examination of the former member of UNPROFOR French contingent, Karadzic contends that there was ‘chaos’ in Sarajevo and not an ‘idyll” as the prosecution is trying to present in court. In Karadzic’s words, the city was ‘full of soldiers, arms and criminals’ and citizens of all ethnicities were terrorized. This ‘greatly influenced the behavior’ of the Serb side in the conflict. Momcilo Mandic began his evidence today

In his third appearance before the Tribunal, Momcilo Mandic had to correct some of his claims in his previous testimony at the trials of Krajisnik and of Stanisic and Zupljanin. Mandic had earlier said that the extremist members of the SDS ‘curried favor with Karadzic’. Today, he said they actually curried favor with Krajisnik

Continuing his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic Momcilo Mandic contended that he wasn’t involved in prisoner exchanges. He was ‘busy with establishing rule of law’, Mandic claimed. Mandic blamed Biljana Plavsic for all the evils, calling her a ‘doctor for snails’ and claiming she had invited ‘wild animals’ such as Arkan’s Tigers, White Eagles and other paramilitary formations to Republika Srpska

In the final part of Momcilo Mandic's examination-in-chief, the prosecutor noted that other Bosnian Serb leaders, not only Biljana Plavsic, liked to be photographed with ‘Arkan’s men’ and various other paramilitary formations. Radovan Karadzic was one of them, the prosecutor claimed. At the beginning of the cross-examination, Karadzic addressed the witness as ‘Mr. Minister’, and Mandic replied by addressing Karadzic ‘Mr. President’

Continuing his cross-examination of Momcilo Mandic, Radovan Karadzic tried to show that the Serb side respected the law and wanted to preserve peace. Contrary to that, Karadzic argued, the SDA was involved in ‘illegal activities against Serbs and Yugoslavia’. Bosnian Serbs ‘responded to the violations of their constitutional rights’ by establishing their own parallel institutions. In Mandic’s words, it was ‘measure for measure’

In Radovan Karadzic’s words, all the charges against him ‘hang by a thread’, and the thread is the accusation that he was involved in the effort to permanently and forcibly remove the Bosnian Muslims and Croats from the parts of BH Serbs claimed as their own. Through Momcilo Mandic’s testimony, Karadzic is trying to contest the claim he was responsible for the division of the BH MUP. According to Karadzic, the other side was to be blamed for that

According to Radovan Karadzic and witness Momcilo Mandic, Bosnian Serbs ‘did not want to separate’ from the other two peoples in BH in order to create ‘an ethnically pure Serb state’; they advocated a solution which would not result in them becoming an ethnic minority. According to Mandic, ‘the international community and Cutileiro’ proposed the separation

As he continued his cross-examination of Momcilo Mandic, Radovan Karadzic said that the Serbian Volunteer Guard members on the footage shown by the prosecution looked ‘quite disciplined and well-equipped’ to him, saying that between 1991 and 1995, no criminal reports were filed against Arkan. The ICTY indictment against Arkan shows that in fact, in 1995, Arkan’s Tigers committed serious crimes in Sanski Most

According to Radovan Karadzic, the ascendance of new people to power, war, communications breakdown and government inefficiency in 1992 ‘created an illusion of chaos that could not be controlled’. He claims Omarska and Keraterm were not concentration camps but reception centers, and Trnopolje was a place where people came and left as they wanted

As his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic drew to a close, Momcilo Mandic explained that Radovan Karadzic could not control the army, contrary to what he had said in his previous evidence in the Krajisnik case. Mandic then wished the best of luck to ‘Mr. President’, as he addressed the accused during his testimony, and left the courtroom. The next witness is Dr. Milan Mandilovic, head surgeon in the Ear, Nose and Throat Ward of the State Hospital in Sarajevo

Radovan Karadzic asked Dr. Milan Mandilovic ‘who launched the aggression’ against Sarajevo and its citizens. ‘If someone holds you under siege for 44 months and doesn’t let you leave, then one need not be too clever to figure it out…’, Dr. Mandilovic replied. When Karadzic asked him what he would say if he knew that the ‘Muslim’ and not Serb forces were responsible for the suffering of the Sarajevo citizens, the witness replied ‘I wouldn’t believe you’

In the opinion of Egyptian general Hussein Ali Abdel-Razek, the Bosnian Serb political and military leaderships had identical goals, and worked hand in hand, but the politicians, including Karadzic, were in charge at the meetings when the shelling of Sarajevo and the expulsion of Muslims were discussed. With the help of Lord Owen Karadzic tried to show that there were no ‘good and bad guys’ in BH

In the cross-examination of General Abdel Razek, Radovan Karadzic argued that Serbs in Sarajevo were ‘ethnic hostages’ of the Bosnian authorities. In the re-examination, the prosecutor asked the witness what were alleged ‘ethnic hostages’ in fact afraid of. ‘Continuous shelling, snipers and shortages…’, the witness replied. The next prosecution witness is Ekrem Suljevic from Sarajevo

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the prosecution called witness Ekrem Suljevic. An order issued by the VRS, tendered into evidence by the prosecution through this witness, states that ‘the highest-yield target with as many human casualties as possible’ should be selected for modified air bombs known as ‘sows’

The indiscriminate shelling from the VRS positions in the second half of 1992 ‘made Sarajevo a dangerous place to live’, senior UN military observer Richard Mole said in his evidence. Shells fell every single day and about 15 civilians were killed every day by snipers and shells

Briton Richard Mole remembers that military observers ‘felt’ that the claims about the BH Army targeting their own people ‘might be true’, but he ‘forgot the details’. In response to those arguments, the prosecution has called yet another British witness, Richard Higgs, an expert on mortars. Having analyzed some shelling incidents, Higgs concluded that the shells had been fired from Serb positions

Continuing his cross-examination of the prosecution mortars expert, Radovan Karadzic argued that the shelling incidents targeting the citizens of Sarajevo had been ‘staged to make the Serbs’ position difficult, to gain worldwide sympathy and provoke an international intervention’. In Karadzic’s view, the investigations of those incidents were ‘improvised’ and ‘sloppy’, meant for public consumption

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic the prosecution tendered into evidence Ratko Mladic’s diaries, seized in December 2008 and February 2010 in the Belgrade apartment of Mladic’s wife. In a brief cross-examination, Karadzic focused on the translation of the diaries and the situation his and Mladic’s families faced; as he said, they were ‘abused even more than Osama Bin Laden’s brother’. In the end, Karadzic said he was not contesting the diaries’ authenticity

According to earlier estimates, the Trial Chamber was to hand down its judgment to Radovan Karadzic by December 2012. The Trial Chamber’s latest calculation indicates that the judgment could be delivered sometime between August 2013 and April 2014. This was disclosed at a status conference, where the parties also discussed how to make sure the trial ‘doesn’t go out of hand’ and jeopardize its expeditiousness and fairness

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of Ekrem Suljevic. During the war, Suljevic investigated serious shelling incidents with civilian casualties in Sarajevo. Karadzic argued that all major shelling incidents had been ‘staged’, that the investigations had been ‘sloppy’ and done for ‘propaganda purposes to blame the Serbs’. At one point, Karadzic asked the witness, ‘Is Sarajevo still there where it once was’

The trial of Radovan Karadzic will be adjourned again until 27 September 2010 after the testimony of the three witnesses that are already in The Hague. During the break Karadzic will study documents that – in his view – corroborate the defense’s argument that the VRS ‘fired on legitimate military targets’ in Sarajevo

Former general manager of the State Hospital in Sarajevo Dr. Bakir Nakas is testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. In his evidence today, Dr. Nakas said the hospital was so riddled with bullets and shells that foreigners called it the ‘Swiss cheese hospital’

As his trial continues, Radovan Karadzic today tried to prove that witness Alma Mulaosmanovic Cehajic was a victim of ‘exchange of fire’, and not ‘fire that constituted a crime’ from the VRS positions. The prosecution then called Francis Roy Thomas as its next witness. Thomas, former head UN military observer, contested Karadzic’s claims that Sarajevo was full of legitimate military targets, noting that he ‘saw no military objective at all’ in the shelling of Sarajevo

At the end of his cross-examination, Canadian officer Francis Roy Thomas said that in the nine months of his stay in Sarajevo, the BH Army didn’t use tanks and other heavy artillery on Bosnian Serb positions. In 1993 and 1994, Thomas was in Sarajevo as a UN military observer. Radovan Karadzic’s trial continues on 27 September 2010

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Dutch sniper expert Patrick Van der Weijden said that targeting civilians by snipers was prohibited. Those who violated the rule should face trial before a military court

In the cross-examination of Dutch expert for snipers Van der Weijden, Karadzic claimed that the prosecution ‘misled’ the witness by giving him incomplete or inaccurate information about the incidents in Sarajevo. Karadzic contends that tram tracks were not in the same place when the witness made his analysis and during the war

In an effort to challenge the expert report on sniper incidents in Sarajevo drafted by prosecution expert, Dutch captain Patrick van der Weijden, Radovan Karadzic claimed that in January, it is already dark in Sarajevo at 4 p.m.

Former member of the VRS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps Milomir Soja testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. In 1995, Soja was involved in modifying air bombs. The accused wasn’t feeling well today and evidence of other witnesses scheduled for this week was canceled. The trial continues on Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Radovan Karadzic’s motion to exclude from evidence all intercepted conversations the BH security services recorded until 6 April 1992 has been rejected. In the judges’ view, the fundamental right to privacy the accused has invoked is not absolute

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, British general Sir Michael Rose said that the accused was a ‘man of his word’. Karadzic kept his promise that Serb forces wouldn’t fire on Sarajevo during a football match between the FC Sarajevo and the UN peace forces. According to the prosecution, this proves that Karadzic had ‘effective control’ over the troops that terrorized Sarajevo

Former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of British general Michael Rose. As Karadzic said, that there can be ‘no reconciliation’ in BH if the general view was that the Serb troops were responsible for the Markale town market massacre in February 1994. Karadzic contends that he has evidence showing that Serbs didn’t do it

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of General Michael Rose, putting it to him that NATO was ‘trigger happy’ and eager to fire on Serbs. Karadzic countered General Rose’s claims, saying that the Serb troops were not against the humanitarian aid deliveries to protected areas. When Karadzic claimed that only 3 to 5 percent of humanitarian convoys had problems crossing the Serb lines, Rose said it was ‘nonsense’

In the final part of his cross-examination of General Michael Rose, Radovan Karadzic complained that the UN erroneously treated the Serb army as ‘rebels’ and ‘Muslim forces’ as legitimate. In the re-examination, the witness noted that in his view Karadzic’s effective control was ‘absolute’

The witness, who was a victim in two incidents that were part of the sniper and artillery terror campaign in Sarajevo, talked at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the consequences of ‘a thousand days spent in serious uncertainty’. He was followed by a ballistic expert of the Security Services Center in Sarajevo. This witness took part in the investigation of the Markale incident of 5 February 1994 and a number of other incidents

The judges asked ballistic expert from the Sarajevo Security Services Center Mirza Sabljica to explain the methodology he and other members of the investigation teams used to determine the direction from which artillery and sniper rounds were fired, killing and injuring civilians in Sarajevo. The accused claims that the investigations were ‘sloppy’

Continuing his cross-examination of Mirza Sabljica, Radovan Karadzic tried to ‘make an overview of all the inconsistencies’ in the investigations of sniper and artillery incidents, in order to ‘raise reasonable doubts’ about their results. Karadzic wants to prove what in fact happened, in his view

In the cross-examination, Radovan Karadzic appealed to ‘the honor and professionalism’ of witness Mirza Sabljica, trying to get Sabljica to confirm Karadzic’s argument: that ‘‘establishing facts wrongly and erroneously blaming one or the other side for the Markale atrocity would make it impossible to achieve reconciliation or delay the process’ in BH

A hearing was held before the Tribunal on Radovan Karadzic’s motion to compel BH to deliver documents he deems relevant for his defense. A BH representative noted that BH had done everything in its power to locate the documents, stressing that the enquiry had been hampered because Karadzic’s demands were imprecise and too broad. Presiding judge O-Gon Kwon said BH was expected to ‘voluntarily cooperate’ with all the parties

Canadian general David Fraser, military assistant to the UNPROFOR commander in Sector Sarajevo from April 1994 to May 1995, testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the ‘horror and terror’ the VRS forces inflicted on the civilians in the city

In the cross-examination of Canadian general David Fraser, former Republika Srpska president claimed that the BH Army and the NATO are responsible for the ‘hostage crisis’ in 1995

The judges today called on the BH authorities to submit by 15 November a report detailing the results of a search for the documents sought by former Republika President; the defense, for its part, filed a motion for a binding order to be sent to the EU, compelling them to provide documents sought by the defense

Radovan Karadzic claimed in his cross-examination of Bogdan Vidovic that ‘everything was falsified’ in the reports the Sarajevo investigation teams filed after their crime scene investigations of sniper and artillery incidents in Sarajevo. Another crime technician from Sarajevo began his evidence today

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, protected witness KDZ-166 described ‘places of horror’ where Sarajevo civilians were killed in explosions of shells and modified air bombs

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Dutch general Adrianus Van Baal said that former chief of the VRS Staff Manojlo Milovanovic protested when tram traffic resumed in Sarajevo in 1994. Manojlovic threatened to personally ‘make sure that trams are targeted’ if they continued to run. Karadzic today maintained that during the war, the relationship between the two generals was much better than they were painted by the witness today

Continuing his cross-examination of General Adrianus Van Baal, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that the VRS – unlike the BH Army – wanted peace and strove to implement ceasefire agreements. The next witness, Sarajevo police officer Dragan Miokovic, says he never doubted that the Serb side was responsible for sniper and artillery incidents

Dragan Miokovic, Sarajevo police officer and ethnic Serb, rejected Radovan Karadzic’s claims that the Sarajevo Security Services Center ‘altered’ crime scenes and falsified evidence to blame the sniper and artillery incidents on the Serb side. Norwegian Anton Per Brennskag, former UN military observer from Norway, began his evidence today

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Fahra Mujanovic from the Barice district in Sarajevo recounted how the Serb soldiers on their positions sang the song, ‘Listen closely, Alija, hear our machine guns fire, Otes and Stup will be gone soon...’ at the top of their lungs, as they shelled Sarajevo. Dr. Yousef Hajir, surgeon in the make-shift war hospital in Dobrinja, began his testimony

In the cross-examination of Dr. Youssef Hajir, Radovan Karadzic contested his claims that there were about 16,000 injured and 1,000 killed inhabitants of Dobrinja. Karadzic contended there were a lot of personal ‘impressions’ and less actual information in the witness’s statement. The witness argued that those weren’t impressions but ‘reality’ of the siege in Sarajevo, and Dobrinja in particular – where children aged seven or eight years were shot right through the heart by snipers

The Trial Chamber ordered a one-month adjournment of Radovan Karadzic’s trial to allow the accused to inspect the evidence the prosecution has disclosed to him with delay. Another Sarajevo police officer involved in investigations of sniper and artillery incidents testified today

Former employee of the Counter-Sabotage Department in the BH MUP Emir Turkusic testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. As Turkusic said, the only thing more monstrous that the scenes seen at Markale on 28 August 1995 is the ‘speculation’ of the accused that ‘the whole story about the Markale I and II incidents was conceived and planted’ by the Bosnian authorities to provoke NATO air strikes against the Serb forces

Radovan Karadzic cross-examined former employee in the Counter-Sabotage Department of the BH MUP, Emir Turkusic today. He put it to the witness that the modified air bombs, nicknamed ‘sows’ were in fact ‘accurate. According to the witness, if that was the case, then the Bosnian Serb forces ‘deliberately’ targeted densely populated areas such as Alipasino polje. On his way out of the courtroom, the witness said, ‘Let there be justice, though the world perish’

Radovan Karadzic has asked the Trial Chamber to issue a subpoena to French major general Guy De Haynin, claiming De Haynin may be able to confirm that Bosnian Muslims fired "at their own civilians and UNPROFOR in an effort to blame the Serbs for those actions’

Former soldier in the VRS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps is testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. The witness spoke about the Serb police and military expelling the Croats and Muslims. According to the witness, the propaganda spread by Karadzic and other Serb politicians that Croats and Muslims were ‘a threat to Serbs’ and that ‘co-existence was impossible’ contributed significantly to inter-ethnic hatred

Former UN military observer Harry Konings confirmed at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that civilian areas in Sarajevo were targeted from April to October 1995 by ‘random’ artillery and sniper fire from the Bosnian Serb army positions

Video recordings of the incident at the Markale town market in Sarajevo were shown at the trial of Radovan Karadzic together with the photos brought to The Hague by Sead Besic, a crime technician in the Sarajevo Security Services Center. Karadzic asked himself how fragments of ‘a single shell’ could have killed and injured almost 300 people

Crime technician in the Sarajevo Security Services Center Sead Besic rejected Radovan Karadzic’s claims that the BH Army ‘staged’ the two massacres at the Markale market. Nedzib Djozo, a police officer from Sarajevo who took part in investigations of sniper and artillery incidents and was himself wounded in a mortar attack, began his evidence today

In his cross-examination of Sarajevo policeman Nedzib Djozo, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that his army did not kill civilians in Sedrenik and other parts of Sarajevo. In fact, as Karadzic contends, the Stari Grad municipality was ‘a torture chamber for Serbs’

Ismet Svraka continues his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. The witness described ‘his last stroll’ to the Markale town market on 28 August 1995 when he was seriously injured in the explosion of a mortar shell

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, British journalist Martin Bell testified about the civilian suffering and casualties in besieged Sarajevo. Bell reported from Sarajevo during the entire war, with short breaks. Unlike him and other war reporters who would ‘arrive in Sarajevo and then leave’, the people of Sarajevo lived there all the time, ‘trapped by war without an end in sight’, Bell said

In the cross-examination of BBC war reporter from Sarajevo Martin Bell, Radovan Karadzic contended that the Serb side was a victim of ‘a denigration game’. Bell agreed up to a point. He described his last testimony in The Hague as ‘an illuminating experience’. Almir Begic, the son of one of the victims in the first Markale massacre, took the stand after Bell. The prosthetic leg that Karadzic claimed had been planted on the scene belonged to Camil Begic, his father

In the cross-examination, Radovan Karadzic tried to contest the evidence of Almir Begic, who had confirmed that the plastic prosthetic leg seen in the videos of the aftermath of the first Markale massacre on 5 February 1994 belonged to his father Camil. Camil Begic was killed in the incident

The judges rejected Radovan Karadzic’s motion to compel the prosecution to obtain and give him the testimony of all the witnesses who had testified at war crimes trials before local courts in Serbia, Croatia and BH. The judges concluded that the accused – instead of trying to collect the necessary materials himself – wanted the prosecution to do his job and conduct an investigation in his stead

Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, British journalist Jeremy Bowen described how the pattern of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian Serb controlled areas in BH became ‘institutionalized’. Bowen also described the day in the course of the siege of Sarajevo in which two children, wards of the Ljubica Ivezic orphanage, were killed

Continuing his cross-examination of British journalist Jeremy Bowen, Radovan Karadzic argued that Sarajevo had not been besieged by the Serb forces: in fact, the Bosnian government ‘besieged the city from the inside’, preventing the civilians from leaving Sarajevo

Radovan Karadzic has again requested for his trial to be suspended for three months because the prosecution allegedly failed to disclose on time what Karadzic believed to be potentially exculpatory documents. According to Karadzic, the five documents ‘contradict the fundamental allegations in the indictment’

After Witness KDZ-026 completed his evidence in closed session, a French officer who held ‘a high-ranking post’ in UNPROFOR in 1995 began his testimony. The witness confirmed that the Serb artillery in Sarajevo ‘operated under strict control’. The prosecutor illustrated this claim with General Milosevic’s order to ‘use heavy artillery only to shell profitable targets’

In his cross-examination, a French officer who served as a high-ranking member of UNPROFOR in Sarajevo in 1995 said that the Serb forces took various measures to ‘suffocate the people in Sarajevo’. The next witness was another French officer. He was stationed in Sarajevo in late 1993 and in 1994 and he confirmed that the citizens of Sarajevo were targeted by random artillery and sniper fire by the VRS

Continuing his cross-examination of the high-ranking UNPROFOR officer from France, Radovan Karadzic argued that the Serb army didn’t fire on civilians ‘deliberately’. Civilians were killed in the clashes that resulted when the BH Army attacked, and it always attacked first, Karadzic claimed

The prosecution continues its case at the trial of Radovan Karadzic with the evidence of two former UN peace-keepers. In May and June 1995, the Bosnian Serb forces detained the two witnesses heard today and held them hostage

Former military observer from Holland Marcus Helgers described at the trial of Radovan Karadzic how the Serb forces held him and other UN soldiers hostage and used them as human shields to protect the radar facility on Mount Jahorina against NATO air strikes. In his evidence, British general Jonathon Riley spoke about the arrest of 33 of his soldiers during the ‘hostage crisis’ in May and June 1995

Former UN military observer in BH described at the trial of Radovan Karadzic his captivity at the hands of the Bosnian Serb army, which used the witness and other UN peace-keepers as ‘human shields’ against NATO strikes in May and June 1995. It is Karadzic’s case that they were not hostages but prisoners of war as the UN in BH in effect became a ‘warring side’

Radovan Karadzic has asked the Tribunal’s President to reverse the Registry decision on recording and monitoring Karadzic’s telephone conversations. Karadzic filed the motion after a report by US diplomats about a conversation with the former Commanding Officer of the UN Detention Unit was published on Wikileaks

Another crime scene technician from the Sarajevo Security Services Center who was involved in the investigations of artillery and sniper incidents in Sarajevo took the stand at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. The accused again noted that Sarajevo investigations were ‘inadequate’ and their findings, in his view, couldn’t be used before an international court

Radovan Karadzic cross-examined witness KDZ-477. Again, as in his cross-examinations of previous witnesses who investigated artillery and sniper incidents in Sarajevo, Radovan Karadzic claimed that the investigations were ‘conducted using sticks and pieces of string’ and were driven by the desire to blame the Serbs

Canadian Patrick Rechner testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Together with 200 other UN military observers and UN peace-keepers, Rechner was arrested in May 1995 and used as a human shield against NATO air strikes. Karadzic tried to prove that in Bosnia the UN was a ‘warring side, not a peace-keeping force’

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the prosecution case about the civilian victims in Sarajevo is drawing to its close. Today, the prosecution called its investigator Barry Hogan, who went to the sites of all the sniper and artillery incidents in preparation for the trials of two former Sarajevo-Romanija Corps commanders

British general Rupert Smith, the last commander of UNPROFOR in BH, began his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Smith described how the relations between the Bosnian Serb political and military leadership on the one hand and the UN on the other deteriorated in the first half of 1995

When Mladic’s forces launched their attack on Srebrenica in early July 1995, the UN headquarters in Sarajevo read it as a ‘local clash’, a Serb response to previous Muslim attacks from the enclave. ‘I think that the people in my headquarters failed to understand this attack would lead to the total collapse of the enclave’, former UNPROFOR commander Rupert Smith admitted as he continued his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic

In the cross-examination of former UNPROFOR commander in BH Rupert Smith, the accused Radovan Karadzic claimed that the British general was ‘fascinated’ with the Bosnian Serb military leader Mladic and wanted to ‘defeat and humiliate’ him

According to Karadzic, the main source of ‘misunderstandings’ between the Serb side and UNPROFOR was the failure of the peace-keepers to comply with their obligation to demilitarize the protected areas. This is why those territories became ‘military strongholds’ of the Muslim troops which used them to attack Serb villages and positions. General Smith’s description of the ‘3K’ sitting across from him in Pale

Radovan Karadzic contested the evidence of Sanija Dzevlan, victim of a sniper incident listed in the indictment. As he claimed, it was already dark in Sarajevo at 4 pm when Dzevlan was hit, because it was in January, the day was cloudy and Sarajevo lies in a valley

Tihomir Glavas, prosecution witness at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, says that the crisis staff had ‘legislative and executive powers’. As a police chief, Glavas couldn’t and didn’t want to do anything without first getting its decision. ‘The times were rough and hard and people were unwilling to assume any responsibility. I didn’t want to rush in and I always demanded to get a decision in writing’, Glavas said

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of British general Rupert Smith by highlighting the efforts of Slobodan Milosevic and some international players to ‘marginalize’ him. He also spoke about how the ‘powerful players’ decided in the summer of 1995 to bomb the Bosnian Serbs at any cost; the Serbs ‘could do nothing to prevent it’

In the cross-examination of Tihomir Glavas, former police chief in the Sarajevo municipalities of Hadzici and Ilidza, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that there was no coordination between the local and central leadership, and that any claims about the collusion between the local bodies and the paramilitaries was nothing but ‘gossip’. The compulsory work service that the non-Serbs had to do was a ‘positive, not negative discrimination’, Karadzic suggests

A survivor from the bus massacre of 14 June 1992 testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. About 50 Bosniaks trapped in a bus were killed with rocket launchers, infantry arms and hand grenades. The accused contends that the Muslim forces attacked the bus, because, as he put it, ‘Serbs wouldn’t destroy their own bus’

Despite the attempts by Karadzic’s defense to challenge the expertise and impartiality of Professor Berko Zecevic, his expert reports on the explosion at the Markale market in February 1994 and on the manufacture and use of the so-called modified air bombs in the siege of Sarajevo were admitted into evidence. Karadzic was granted a total of six hours to cross-examine the prosecution expert

Radovan Karadzic tried to contest the expertise of Professor Berko Zecevic, prosecution ballistic expert who is testifying about the features, action and consequences of using various rocket systems to target Sarajevo. ‘My integrity is based on the laws of physics’, Professor Zecevic said at one point

Radovan Karadzic accuses Professor Zecevic that in his findings about the Markale explosion he tried to shift the blame from the BH Army to the VRS. Zecevic replied that in February 1994, his commission identified six locations from which the shell may have been fired. One location was in the territory controlled by the BH Army; this conclusion resulted in him being ‘a target’. In a later analysis based on new information, Zecevic was able to reduce six possible locations to three: they were all in the VRS-controlled territory

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, prosecution witness Ramiz Mujkic described the crimes of ‘weekend Chetniks’ in Planjo’s house and his own ordeal. Mujkic blames Karadzic for the ‘blood spilled in Bosnia’, describing the accused as ‘a bloodthirsty lion from TV for whom the truth is an equation with several unknowns’

Radovan Karadzic accused a former police officer from Sarajevo of being part of a ‘joint criminal enterprise aimed at carving up Bosnia’. On 1 March 1992, the citizens ‘voted for the secession of BH from Yugoslavia’, the witness replied. Since Karadzic was ‘unfortunately still a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina’, the witness wished him a happy Independence Day

When former police officer testifying under the pseudonym KDZ 020 called a document Karadzic quoted from ‘a pamphlet published by the Serb-Chetnik municipality of Vogosca’, Karadzic called him ‘a dangerous Muslim extremist’. Did Serbs leave their homes in the village of Svrake by night ‘out of fear’ or because of Radovan Karadzic’s ‘inflammatory speeches’ and ‘poetic’ rhetoric?

When Karadzic said he would not allow Serbs to sell their property to Muslims and that ‘all Muslim foundations will be blown up’, he meant ‘immigrants from Turkey and not local Muslims’, he claimed today. Witness Eset Muracevic replied that he couldn’t speculate what the accused had meant

In the cross-examination of Mehmed Music, the accused Karadzic tried to prove that before the Serb forces attacked the village of Musici, the villagers had armed themselves and made preparations for the fight – this is why they evacuated their women and children. The witness told Karadzic, ‘if you continue like that’, in the end it would turn out that the villagers of Musici had ‘tanks and canons’ at their disposal. The judges admonished both the accused and the witness against making ‘inappropriate’ and “unnecessary” comments

High-ranking UNPROFOR officer testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic with protective measures. According to the witness, the attacks on the citizens of Sarajevo were part of a global strategy to ‘create a climate of fear and terror’ among the civilians. General Ratko Mladic was the ‘main strategist’ and General Dragomir Milosevic was a ‘hands-on man’ in charge of implementing the strategy in the Sarajevo area in 1994 and 1995, the witness claimed

In the cross-examination of the French UNPROFOR officer, Radovan Karadzic extended the ‘list of ruses’ that the BH Army used, according to him, in the war to ‘vilify Serbs’. After the French officer left the courtroom, the prosecution called a woman from Sarajevo who was brutally beaten and raped by Veselin Vlahovic Batko in 1992

At the end of her evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the woman from Sarajevo who had been brutally beaten and raped by Veselin Vlahovic Batko, a/k/a the Monster of Grbavica in June 1992, said she would ‘wait patiently for justice’. Nedjeljko Prstojevic, testifying for the prosecution as an unwilling witness, was finally convinced that his wartime conversations intercepted by the BH side had been correctly transcribed. According to Prstojevic, the minor remarks he had ‘don’t affect the meaning substantially’

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Anthony Banbury described the terror campaign in Sarajevo, the ethnic cleansing in Banja Luka, Sanski Most and Bijeljina, and restrictions to the freedom of movement that the UN staff faced. In the cross-examination, Karadzic argued that the opposite was the case: Serbs were peace-loving and refrained from hostilities because they found Akashi ‘irresistible’ and they indulged his demands

NATO air strikes against Serb targets in the summer of 1994 were a result of ‘Muslim war propaganda’, Radovan Karadzic contends as he continues his cross-examination of Anthony Banbury. In 1994 and 1995, Banbury first served as political advisor to Victor Andreev, UN civil affairs officer in Sarajevo, and then to Yasushi Akashi, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia

According to the notes kept by witness Anthony Banbury, in the summer of 1995 UNPROFOR was considering air strikes not only against Serb positions but of the BH Army positions. Unwilling prosecution witness Nedjeljko Prstojevic returned to the witness stand. The prosecutor brought up a transcript of an intercepted conversation that took place on 25 June 1992 in which Prstojevic says, ‘All Muslims must be destroyed’

Radovan Karadzic cross-examined Nedjeljko Prstojevic, who served as president of the municipal crisis staff in Ilidza, part of Sarajevo. Prstojevic ‘agreed absolutely’ with all claims put to him by the former Republika Srpska president

The accused Radovan Karadzic and prosecution witness Nedjeljko Prstojevic both claim there were no mass expulsions of Muslims from Ilidza. The reports about the expulsions were in fact based on ‘rumors and gossip’. Karadzic’s trial will be adjourned for two months to allow the accused to study the materials disclosed to him with delay

Former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic wants to call Drazen Erdemovic to The Hague and cross-examine him because the defense has obtained ‘new, potentially exculpatory, information’. Erdemovic’s evidence at the Srebrenica Seven trial was admitted into evidence in the Karadzic case

Karadzic asked the Trial Chamber to acquit him of the shelling of the flea market in Sarajevo on 22 December 1994 at this point in his trial, before the prosecution has rested its case. According to Karadzic, ‘there is no case to answer’ regarding this incident

Radovan Karadzic wants the Trial Chamber to issue a binding order to the USA, compelling it to deliver all the documents pertaining to the ‘black flights’ to Tuzla and alleged secret arms and military equipment shipments to the BH Army in February and March 1995

Radovan Karadzic has asked the Trial Chamber to order his trial to be suspended for the fifth time since its beginning, for another two months. Karadzic has asked for more time to go through another set of documents that the prosecution disclosed to him in March 2011. If the motion is granted, the trial would continue on 15 August 2011, after the Tribunal’s summer recess

A hearing was held to discuss Radovan Karadzic’s motion in which he asked the Trial Chamber to issue a subpoena to Venezuela and the UN, compelling them to deliver documents Karadzic intends to use in the cross-examination of former Venezuelan diplomat Diego Arria. The Trial Chamber decided to extend the two-month break at the Karadzic trial for another week

The Trial Chamber dismissed the motion in which the accused asked the judges to acquit him of charges related to the shelling of the Flea Market in Sarajevo on 22 December 1994. The judges ruled that the motion was ‘premature’ because the prosecution has not completed its case yet

Radovan Karadzic has sought various wartime documents produced by the UNHCR arguing that these would help him contest the allegations against him. The prosecution alleges that Karadzic denied freedom of movement of persons and humanitarian convoys; he is also charged with deportation and forcible transfer of non-Serbs from areas under the Bosnian Serb control

Radomir Kezunovic, the first president of the Serb municipality of Ilidza, confirmed in his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that in the first months of war, various paramilitary formations arrived in Ilidza. Among them were Seselj’s men headed by Brne Gavrilovic, Arkan’s Tigers and their leader Milorad Lukovic Legija and Bokan’s group. According to the witness, it was ‘a time of absolute disarray and chaos in Ilidza’

As Patrick Treanor, prosecution political expert, said today, as the VRS commander-in-chief Radovan Karadzic ‘very actively used his power’. Karadzic also ‘very actively monitored’ the implementation of the instruction known as ‘Variant A and B’, according to the intercepted conversations the prosecution has obtained

Radovan Karadzic continued the cross-examination of prosecution political expert Patrick Treanor today. He switched the names of participants and geographical terms in order to contradict the prosecution’s arguments. According to Karadzic, Tudjman and Izetbegovic pursued a double policy: they took part in the negotiations about whether their republics would remain part of Yugoslavia while simultaneously they laid the foundations for ‘a forcible ethnic separation’

Former vice-president of the SDS Executive Board Radomir Neskovic says that Radovan Karadzic was ‘the undisputed authority’ in the party. According to Neskovic, Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik were the supreme power in the Serb movement in BH

Former vice-president of the SDS Executive Board Radomir Neskovic rejected in his cross-examination Radovan Karadzic’s claim that those who committed crimes against Muslims in Grbavica were arrested and prosecuted. Neskovic brought up the example of Veselin Vlahovic Batko whom he described as an ‘armed monster’

In the final part of the cross-examination of prosecution political expert Patrick Treanor, former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic presented his well-known version of history in which Serb leaders ‘looked forward to living together with Croats and Muslims’ and did everything to keep peace. According to Karadzic, Serb leaders even renounced their demand that

In her evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, prosecution expert Dorothea Hanson says that crisis staffs implemented the policy of relocation of non-Serbs. Karadzic is charged with genocide and other crimes in BH

Karadzic argued that the Serb crisis staffs were established in line with the Law on All People’s Defense of the former SFRY and SRBH and not the Instruction of the SDS Executive Board issued in December 1991, which envisaged the takeover of power in municipalities with a Serb majority, as the prosecution expert Dorothea Hanson claimed. According to the accused, everything was done ‘in line with the law’

Former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic tried to contest the findings in the expert report of Dorothea Hanson, who said that the crisis staffs in the Serb municipalities in BH implemented the policy of resettlement of non-Serbs in line with the decisions of the Republika Srpska leadership

After prosecution expert Dorothea Hanson completed her evidence on crisis staffs in Republika Srpska, Dragan Kezunovic was called to the witness stand. Through the testimony of the former chief of the RS MUP Communications and Encryption Department, the prosecution wants to prove that there was a well-developed and regular system of reporting and communications in Republika Srpska. Karadzic denies this claim

In his statement to the OTP investigators, former chief of the Republika Srpska Communications Center in Pale said that the communications system functioned well during the war. According to the witness, Karadzic could communicate with whomever he wanted. In the cross-examination, the witness modified his claim slightly, confirming Karadzic’s suggestion that the communications system was ‘variegated’, especially in 1992

Asim Dzambasovic, former chief of staff in the JNA 216th Mountain Brigade, who later joined the 1st Corps of the BH Army, testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the ‘fraternal relations’ between the Serb officers in the former JNA and the representatives of the SDS in BH. In the cross-examination, Karadzic tried to corroborate his case that the Serb forces shelled ‘legitimate military targets’ in Sarajevo and that ‘Muslim forces attacked Serb parts of the town and terrorized their own people"

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Hajrudin Karic described the heavy beating and other abuse he and about 100 other Muslims suffered in captivity, first in Pale and then in the Kula prison. Police chief Malko Koroman visited the prisoners in Pale once and nonchalantly remarked that the hall where the prisoners were held looked ‘like an outbreak of the plague’. In Kula prison, Karadzic personally visited the prisoners

Nebojsa Ristic, Radovan Karadzic’s personal escort during and after the war, said that representatives of civilian and military authorities – including Miroslav Deronjic – visited the office of the Republika Srpska president in Pale. Deronjic, president of the crisis staff in Bratunac, said before the Tribunal that Karadzic ordered the killings after Srebrenica was overrun. Karadzic is now trying to distance himself from Deronjic, saying that he was ‘courteous’ to him as he was to everybody else. Milorad Davidovic, former inspector in the Federal Yugoslav SUP, began his evidence after Ristic

In his evidence, Milorad Davidovic sheds light on Karadzic’s knowledge about the presence of paramilitary units in Republika Srpska, their funding and involvement in the expulsions of non-Serbs from Bijeljina, Zvornik and Brcko. The witness labeled the claims that Muslims voluntarily moved out as ‘sheer nonsense’. According to Davidovic, it was a matter of ‘saving their lives’ from a ‘hell’ orchestrated by the SDS

Continuing the cross-examination of Milorad Davidovic, the accused Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that in the summer of 1992 he ordered the witness to disarm and arrest paramilitaries. The witness says that Karadzic and Krajisnik made sure the paramilitaries were released, in line with their motto, ‘Serbs shouldn’t be arrested and prosecuted’

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of Milorad Davidovic today. He was arguing that his leadership tried to impose order and was ‘fighting against chaos not for chaos’. The accused denied claims that he protected a key person in the drive to ethnically cleanse Bijeljina, Vojkan Djurkovic. Karadzic also denied that Djurkovic gave him money taken from the expelled Muslims

In the re-examination of Milorad Davidovic, the prosecution used documents in which an intelligence group codenamed Typhoon, operating as part of the RS State Security Service, informed Franko Simatovic in the Belgrade secret police headquarters that Radovan Karadzic was Vojkan Djurkovic’s patron. Djurkovic was in charge of the ethnic cleansing in Bijeljina, and he purportedly gave some of money taken from the expelled Muslims to Karadzic

The Trial Chamber hearing the Radovan Karadzic case issued a subpoena to former BH Army commanders Sead Delic and Refik Brdjanovic, who are compelled to meet with the legal advisers of the accused not later than 31 August 2011

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, protected witness KDZ 240 completed his evidence today. His entire testimony went on in closed session. The next witness is a prosecution expert who wrote a report on the split in the BH police and the establishment of the Serb MUP

Prosecution expert Christian Nielsen described in his examination-in chief at the trial of Radovan Karadzic the ‘birth’ of the Serb MUP in BH in 1992 and spoke about its first results. Among them were thousands of non-Serb prisoners held in prison camps. Karadzic’s orders to treat prisoners in line with the Geneva Conventions referred only to ‘the civilians who are not involved in any aggressive military operations against our army and civilians’

Radovan Karadzic continues his cross-examination of Christian Nielsen, who studied the creation and operation of the Serb police. Karadzic tried to prove that the Serb side was in favor of keeping ‘peace at all costs’. The ‘illegal’ efforts of the RS MUP to arm the Serbs in fact had a ‘positive connotation’, he went on to say

In his cross-examination of the prosecution expert, Radovan Karadzic claimed it took time for those who were prone to crime to show their tendencies, using a folk saying to corroborate his argument, ‘Snow doesn’t fall to cover the hills but so that each beast may show their tracks’. The witness replied in passable Serbian with another saying which, as he said, describes the conduct of the Bosnian Serb police, ‘The old woman combs her hair as the village burns’

Isak Gashi, former member of the Yugoslav rowing team, testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Gashi talked about his detention in the Luka prison camp in 1992. He was shown a video clip in which a Serb spoke about their erstwhile neighbors. Gashi responded by telling the court what he thought about ‘a state for Serbs only’

All attempts to convince the former chief of the Croatian secret service, son of the former Croatian president, to agree to be interviewed by Karadzic’s defense about the purported alleged smuggling of weapons from Iran to Srebrenica and Zepa via Croatia had failed, and the Trial Chamber issued a subpoena ordering the former Croatian secret service chief to come and testify under threat of a prison sentence and/or a fine

Radovan Karadzic was cautioned once again against wasting time on ‘trivial issues’. Isak Gashi, who used to be a Yugoslav, explained why he became a ‘Muslim, a Bosniak, an extremist’. Former president of the Brcko War Presidency explained what measures were taken to investigate crimes in the Luka Prison

Prosecution military expert Reynaud Theunens wrote an expert report for the trial of Radovan Karadzic. In the report, Theunens claims that the SDS took over power in Bijeljina with the help of Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan and the local Serb Territorial Defense. Karadzic tried to prove that ‘somebody unofficial’ called Arkan to help after the ‘Muslim extremists’ set up roadblocks and opened fire at Serbs

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of prosecution military expert Reynaud Theunens. As Karadzic said, the plan for the transformation of municipalities put forth by the Serb side called for Brcko to be transformed into something akin to Brussels. Karadzic also tried to prove that the Bosnian Serbs’ strategic goals were misinterpreted, just like the relationship between Serbs and Croats during the war. As Karadzic put it, Serbs and Croats cooperated: ‘we gave them electricity, they gave us oil’

The accused Karadzic contested the claims made by the prosecution military expert that Karadzic’s orders contributed to the obstruction of the free movement of humanitarian convoys. Karadzic argued that he had far too many things to do and he got involved in those issues only when asked to do so by the international community. According to Karadzic, the Serb side was ‘way too lenient’

In the re-examination, the prosecution insisted that the Bosnian Serbs’ strategic goals were not just a ‘political platform’ for the negotiating table as Karadzic claimed. According to the prosecution, the goals were ‘made operational’ in the field. Karadzic’s trial continues on 16 August 2011, after the Tribunal’s summer recess

The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumed today with the testimony of a Serb police officer from Zvornik. The witness claims that the local authorities were unable to deal with volunteer groups. Rogue volunteers became so powerful that Zvornik was almost renamed ‘Zuco’s town’, the witness contends

In the cross-examination, the prosecution witness, former Serb official from Zvornik, agreed with Karadzic’s claims about the Muslims organizing and arming themselves and the secret plans of the ‘Mosque Doves’, ‘Cobras’ and ‘Black Swans’ to blow up dams and bridges on the Drina River. This caused fear among the Serbs. In the end, Arkan’s ‘Tigers’ ‘defended’ them

Former Serb official from Zvornik contends at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that the members of the Serb Crisis Staff in Zvornik at the beginning of the war weren’t able ‘to discern who is who’ among the volunteer groups. They were naïve ‘as sheep’ and put their trust in anybody who came and offered help

In the part of his evidence in open session, former member of the Yellow Wasps unit from Zvornik said that in early April 1992 the conflict in that town ‘was in the air’

Musan Talovic from Glogova in Bratunac testified at the Radovan Karadzic trial about the execution he survived when the Serb forces attacked Glogova on 9 May 1992. About 20 Muslim men were executed in the incident, including two children. A total of 68 people were killed in Glogova that day. Karadzic tried to prove that this was a 'local' incident which was not ordered from 'the central'

Izet Redzic from Vlasenica testified at the Radovan Karadzic trial about the division of the municipality into Serb and Muslim parts, with threats that the 'borders will be drawn in blood'. He also spoke about the arrests and murders of Vlasenica Muslims that followed. Former guard in the prison located in the technical school in Karakaj and Pilica, Dragan Vidovic, also completed his evidence today

Dzevad Gusic, former SDA president in Bratunac, said that Radovan Karadzic was behind the appointment of Miroslav Deronjic as the SDS president in that municipality. According to Gusic, Deronjic was Karadzic’s ‘right-hand man’. Karadzic disputes that, saying that the witness told ‘a pack of lies’. According to Karadzic, his relations with Deronjic were ‘cold and distant’

With the evidence of protected witness KDZ 605 the prosecution continues calling evidence about the crimes in Bratunac at Radovan Karadzic’s trial. The witness described the abuse and killing of Muslim detainees. A member of Arkan’s unit called Bane and other Serb soldiers formed a circle in a school gym using school desks. They brought the prisoners inside the circle and beat them, some to death

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Ibro Osmanovic from Vlasenica described the torture in the prisons in Vlasenica and in the prison camps in Susica and Batkovic. Osmanovic spoke about how it felt to lose almost his entire family. Most of them are still missing. Osmanovic found the head of one of his brothers 25 km from where his body was found and was able to find ‘only seven and half percent’ of his sister’s bones

The man who witnessed the killing of Muslims in the village of Drum near Vlasenica in June 1992 testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Suad Dzafic from Vitkovic near Bratunac, survivor of a mass execution near Nova Kasaba in May 1992, took the stand after him

The trial of former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic continued with the evidence of Sefik Hurko from Rogatica. Hurko described the cruel abuse he suffered together with his father and uncle after their arrest in mid-August 1992. Serb soldiers first ‘cut his father’s ears’ and then forced the witness to eat bullets. The witness’s hands were stabbed with a knife and he was beaten brutally

Radovan Karadzic completed the cross-examination of Sefik Hurko today, who was tortured in the village of Kosovo near Rogatica, as were his family members. Armin Bazdar was called to the witness stand next. In August 1992, when he was made to join a group of prisoners destined to be executed, Bazdar was only 15 years old

After Armin Bazdar from Rogatica completed his evidence the prosecution called to the witness stand Sead Hodzic, a survivor of a massacre in the village of Zaklopace near Vlasenica on 16 May 1992. More than 60 persons were killed in the attack of the Serb forces. Some of victims were children under the age of ten. Protected witness KDZ 607 began his evidence today

In her evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Munira Selmanovic from Novoseoce near Sokolac described how the Serb forces expelled the women, children and the elderly from the village on 22 September 1992. The Serb forces then proceeded to kill their husbands, fathers and sons. Concluding her evidence, the witness asked whomever had separated those families to say publicly for whose sake he had done it: his own or Karadzic’s

Former Bosnian Serb police officer from Sarajevo testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic under protective measures. The witness spoke about the detention facilities in Lukavica and Pale and about the involvement of Branislav Gavrilovic Brne’s group, ‘Oljaca’s Chetniks’ and other paramilitary formations in the Bosnian Serb operations in the Sarajevo theatre of war

Mirzet Karabeg from Sanski Most said at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that the key figure in the effort to ‘destroy’ good neighborly relations and co-existence of Serbs, Muslims and Croats was Nedjeljko Rasula, SDS candidate for the president of Sanski Most municipality

As Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of Mirzet Karabeg, he claimed that the modifier ‘Serb’ in the name of the newly-declared municipality of Sanski Most was used simply to indicate that what was meant was just the ‘Serb parts’ of the municipality. According to Karadzic, this implied that there was also a Muslim part. Karadzic used the town of Srbac to illustrate his point: the town had a Serb majority and there was no need to carve the municipality into two or to use this modifier

During the evidence of protected witness KDZ 379, the prosecution showed an interview in which Miroslav Stanic bragged about his contribution to the ‘liberation’ of Foca. Stanic recalled the words from the founding assembly of the SDS in 1990: ‘the Drina river will never be a border but a windpipe connecting the two lungs’. Another man from Foca testifying under the pseudonym KDZ 239 and with protective measures began his evidence today

At Radovan Karadzic’s trial, the court first heard a witness who spoke about the beating and killing of prisoners in the Penitentiary and Correctional Facility (KPD) in Foca. The prosecution proceeded to call evidence about the Serb forces’ crimes in Kljuc, one of the eight municipalities listed in the indictments as locations where the ethnic cleansing campaign reached the level of genocide. The witnesses survived the execution of a group of 144 men in the village of Biljani on 10 July 1992

The only survivor of an incident in Blazevici near Sanski Most – in which 18 Muslim men were killed on 27 June 1992 – testified at the trial of Radovan Karazdic under the pseudonym KDZ 052. Petko Panic, a Serb police officer from Zvornik, began his evidence as the next witness

As Radovan Karadzic cross-examined Petko Panic from Zvornik, he tried to prove that the municipality didn’t have enough money to pay for Arkan’s ‘services’. Karadzic contends that in the first months of the war Zvornik was under the control of ‘renegade’ paramilitary forces and nobody dared to confront them

Protected witness KDZ 051 described at the trial of Radovan Karadzic the ordeal of a parent whose seven-and-a-half year old daughter and 13-year old son were raped by the Serb forces in Rogatica in 1992. The witness, himself a rape victim, said he was still haunted by the thought that the men he knew, his former friends and neighbors, committed the crimes

Former police officer and cameraman from Prijedor Nusret Sivac testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the ‘Wailing Wall’ in the Omarska prison camp. According to the indictment, about 150 villagers from the Brda area were killed there around 20 July 1992. In the cross-examination, Karadzic brought up Sivac’s book where Sivac called him the ‘werewolf from Mt. Durmitor’. Karadzic suggested that Sivac had an anti-Serb bias and argued that this disqualified him as a witness

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic the prosecution continued calling evidence about the crimes of the Serb forces in BH municipalities. Atif Dzafic, former police commander in Kljuc, testified via video link. In 1992, Dzafic was detained for about seven months in the Manjaca prison camp. Karadzic contends that ‘only’ 1,163 out of 17,000 Bosniaks living in Kljuc before the war were detained in the camp

The trial of Radovan Karadzic continued today with the testimony of Grgo Stojic from Sanski Most. Stojic testified about the execution of a group of Croatian civilians on 2 November 1992. Karadzic claims that ‘out of control’ paramilitary formations were responsible for the crime and argues that Stojic was not held prisoner in Banja Luka hospital but was treated as a “witness of a crime”

According to the evidence of a former Omarska camp inmate Kerim Mesanovic, the lists of people to be killed, nicknamed ‘the icing lists’ by the guards, contained mostly the names of lawyers, physicians, engineers and other prominent non-Serbs from Prijedor. After Mesanovic completed his evidence, a former inmate of the Penitentiary and Correctional Facility in Foca took the stand. He is a protected witness, testifying under the pseudonym KDZ-017

Radovan Karadzic claims that the Serbian authorities in Kljuc investigated the mass murder of non-Serbs in the village of Velagici and punished the perpetrators. Former prisoner in the prison camps Manjaca and Batkovic Asim Egrlic replied to Karadzic that he heard that some men were arrested; they were in prison for only 18 days. ‘If they had killed so many hens, they would have gotten more than 18 days’, the witness said

In his answers to Radovan Karadzic, witness Asim Egrlic said that about 600 persons were killed in Kljuc, some 3,550 houses were destroyed, 17 mosques were torn down and 17,000 persons were forced to move out. ‘There is no justification’ for such a crime, the witness insisted

Two protected witnesses gave evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic; their testimony was heard in closed session. As the hearing drew to its close, Ivo Atlija, Bosnian Croat from Prijedor, was called to the witness stand. Atlija testified about the Serb forces’ crimes against the people in the Croatian villages and hamlets in the Prijedor region

Ivo Atlija completed his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. The trial then continued with the testimony of a former prisoner of the Omarska prison camp. As the witness said, her day began with counting the dead bodies scattered in front of the notorious ‘white house’. The prisoners in Omarska in most cases died of torture, which was so terrible that ‘a bullet was sometimes a reward’

Karadzic completed his cross-examination of protected witness KDZ 080. The trial continued with the evidence of yet another prisoner of Omarska, Mevludin Sejmenovic. He described the conditions in the prison camp as ‘horrible’; a Serbian TV journalist in a video showed in court called it a ‘beautiful center’

In the cross-examination of former SDA official Mevludin Sejmenovic, Radovan Karadzic wanted to prove that the Muslims in Prijedor had secretly been preparing for the war against the Serbs

Former SDA president in Prijedor Mirsad Mujadzic said at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that Radoslav Brdjanin, former president of the Crisis Staff of the Autonomous Region of Krajina often included ‘off-color jokes’ at the expense of Bosniaks in his public speeches. Brdjanin openly said there were too many Muslims in the Banja Luka region. There should be enough Muslims left in Banja Luka and its environs to ‘prepare cevapcici’ for the Serbs, Brdjanin said

In his cross-examination of Dr Mirsad Mujadzic from Prijedor, Radovan Karadzic claimed that ‘his client’ cannot be held responsible for the crimes in the Sana river valley because, as he explained, ‘people have been killing each other there ever since the emergence of the two religions’. Judge Morrison advised Karadzic to set aside ‘the schizophrenic client-lawyer relationship’

In the cross-examination of the prosecution witness KDZ 163, Radovan Karadzic claimed that the incidents in the field were the result of ‘lack of discipline, uncultured behavior and social pathology’ of individuals. The witness mostly confirmed Karadzic’s claims. The witness agreed with Karadzic that prisoners who were taken out of the prison never to return were not killed but were either exchanged or released

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the prosecution is currently leading evidence on the execution of 200 Muslims and Croats on 21 August 1992 at Koricanske Stijene on Mt. Vlasic. Nenad Krejic, former chief of the Public Security Station in Skender Vakuf, testified about the incident. At the beginning of the conflict, the Serb authorities renamed Skender Vakuf municipality Knezevo. Milan Komljenovic, president of the Crisis Staff in Knezevo, was called as the next witness

In the cross-examination, Milan Komljenovic agreed with the accused Karadzic that looting was the motive for the massacre of about 200 Croats and Muslims at Koricanske Stijene in August 1992. Komljenovic also said that the local authorities were ‘shocked’ by the incident and were determined to investigate the crime and punish the perpetrators. However, as the witness pointed, they had to wait for ‘a more propitious moment’

Ed Vulliamy testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. In early August 1992 Vulliamy was in a group of British journalist who visited the Omarska and Trnopolje prison camps at the invitation of the Republika Srpska president, now in the Tribunal’s dock. When Karadzic claimed Vuillamy was ‘anti-Serb’, the witness replied ‘I don’t want to be neutral’ in cases involving racist violence

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, protected witness KDZ 011 spoke about the expulsion of the non-Serbs from the Bosanski Novi area in May and June 1992. Former UN official Charles Kirudja began his evidence

In the cross-examination of Charles Kirudja, the accused Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that the non-Serbs from Bosanski Novi and other towns in northwestern BH left their homes ‘voluntarily’. Kirudja dismissed Karadzic’s claim that those people moved out in line with the law in force at the time and that they actually wanted to move out. Kirudja repeated his previous conclusion: it was a case of ethnic cleansing

Radovan Karadzic has asked for yet another suspension of his trial for one month before the prosecution starts calling evidence on his role in the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995

Dr Idriz Merdzanic from Prijedor says that after Radovan Karadzic invited foreign journalists to visit the prison camps to see that they in fact didn’t exist, he issued an order that was a ‘death sentence’ for hundreds of prisoners in Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje

Dr Idriz Merdzanic completed his evidence about the prison camps in Prijedor. The trial of Radovan Karadzic continued with the testimony of a prosecution military expert about the implementation of the Bosnian Serbs’ strategic goals in BH through military means

Military expert of the prosecution Ewan Brown continues his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Brown said that prison camps Manjaca, Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje were a ‘part of the policy of separation’ of Serbs from other nations in BH

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of the prosecution military expert Ewan Brown. Karadzic insisted that in 1992 he personally sent a number of appeals and orders to protect non-Serb civilians. The witness said that ‘sending documents is one thing, and implementing them is something entirely different’. Karadzic’s motion for the adjournment of his trial for one month was rejected

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of the prosecution military expert Ewan Brown, trying to prove that non-Serbs from the Bosnian Krajina were not expelled, but were ‘evacuated’ for their own safety. A survivor of the massacre in Orahovac is scheduled to begin his evidence tomorrow; the prosecution case at Karadzic’s trial will thus enter its final stage, when the prosecution will call evidence about Srebrenica

In the final part of his cross-examination of the prosecution military expert Ewan Brown, Radovan Karadzic claimed that the Republika Srpska authorities didn’t force non-Serbs to move out. Karadzic insisted there was a difference between those ‘who fled, those who were expelled and those desperate enough to leave on their own’. ‘For me, it is all the same’, the witness responded

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, a witness testifying under the pseudonym KDZ 039 described the three days he spent in detention in Potocari and Bratunac and an execution in Orahovac on 14 July 1995. The indictment against Radovan Karadzic alleges that about 1,000 Bosniaks captured after the fall of Srebrenica were killed in the incident. When the sun set, the execution continued under the headlights of backhoes, the witness recounted

Witness KDZ 039 completed his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. The trial continued with the testimony of Dutch military officer Johannes Rutten. Karadzic claimed that Muslims detained in the ‘white house’ in Potocari threw away their documents and burned them deliberately, in order to prevent the Serb authorities from identifying them. The captured Muslims also burned their money because they didn’t want it ‘to end in Serbian hands’

An officer of the Dutch Battalion testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. On 11 and 12 July 1995, the witness attended all three meetings organized by General Ratko Mladic, with the representatives of the UN peace-keeping force and the refugees gathered in Potocari. On their way back to the UN base, the witness and his commander Karremans concluded that, because of the translation, they didn’t understand very well what Mladic had sought from them and the refugees and what had in fact been agreed at the meeting

As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, video recordings of the first two meetings with Ratko Mladic immediately after the Serb forces entered Srebrenica on 11 July 1995 were shown in court. New prosecution witness Evert Rave says that everything that happened in Srebrenica, including the deportation of Muslims, had been ‘organized beforehand’

Australian archeologist Richard Wright testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Wright took part in the Tribunal’s investigation in Srebrenica, heading the team which located and exhumed mass graves

Jose Baraybar, forensic anthropologist from Peru, testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Baraybar explained the procedure and methodology he used to establish the number, age, sex and cause of death of the victims exhumed from Srebrenica mass graves

Australian pathologist Dr. Christopher Lorens did not agree with Karadzic that the people exhumed from the Srebrenica mass graves had been fighters, and had died in battle, not on execution sites. According to the witness, Karadzic’s argument is contradicted by the fact that many of the victims had been blindfolded and had their hands tied. Furthermore, some were old men, and some were mere boys. The efforts to cover up the mass graves also indicate that they did not contain the remains of the fighters. Ottoman cultural heritage expert Andras Riedlmayer began his evidence

US expert for the Ottoman cultural heritage Andras Riedlmayer testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the destruction of Muslim and Catholic cultural and religious buildings during the war in BH. The sites where mosques and churches used to stand were turned into parking lots, flea markets or garbage tips. According to Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb authorities were not to blame for the destruction: it was the consequence of the ‘chaos of a civil war which engenders more chaos’

The trial of Radovan Karadzic continued after the Tribunal’s winter recess with the evidence of a witness who survived the execution of about 1,000 Muslim men and boys at the Petkovci dam in the night of 14 July 1995. After the witness finished his evidence, the prosecution called British pathologist John Clark. From 1999 to 2001, Clark was in charge of the post mortems of the victims exhumed from Srebrenica mass graves

In his cross-examination of British pathologist John Clark and Guatemalan anthropologist Fredi Peccerelli, Radovan Karadzic argued that the Srebrenica victims had been killed in combat, and not in mass executions. The witnesses didn’t rule this out entirely but added it was not very likely, considering all the evidence collected during the investigation of the crimes in Srebrenica

Colonel Josef Kingori continued his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. As Kingori said, high-ranking VRS officers he and other UN military observers talked to clearly told them that they ‘want Srebrenica only for Serbs’ and that they would ‘cleanse’ it of Muslims. This meant ‘killing’ the Muslims, the witness explained

Radovan Karadzic contends that the men who were separated from the women and children by the Serb forces in Potocari and detained in the ‘white house’ were prisoners of war. Karadzic also said that the people left the Srebrenica enclave ‘voluntarily’ on the ‘orders’ of the Muslim authorities. In Karadzic’s words, he personally ‘guarded [Pandurevic's] back' when he decided to open the corridor allowing the column of soldiers and civilians to pass through towards Tuzla on 16 July 1995. The witnesses mostly disagreed with Karadzic’s claims

Former member of the UN Dutch Battalion in Srebrenica, Roger Patelski, described the Serb soldiers as ‘Rambo types’ who ‘carried out the mop-up operation’ alongside the road to the UN base in Potocari. Grenades went off and people screamed as they went from house to house. Former deputy commander of the Dutch Battalion Robert Franken testified about the ‘convoy terror campaign’. Karadzic has refuted their evidence, claiming that it was never the Serbs’ plan to enter Srebrenica. According to Karadzic, Serbs only entered the town because both the civilians and the soldiers had left

In his cross-examination of Robert Franken Radovan Karadzic showed an interview in which he said ‘Serbs proved their nobility in Srebrenica’ and civilians were given a choice: leave or remain in Srebrenica. The witness replied that in his view, the choice was merely ‘theoretical’. Pyers Tucker, General Philip Morillon’s aide de camp, began his evidence later today

British colonel Pyers Tucker said at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that the Western media ‘focused on the atrocities and ethnic cleansing’ in Podrinje. The picture of Bosnia in the media would probably have been different if the forces under the command of the accused ‘hadn’t perpetrated those terrible things’. The witness also contested Karadzic’s claims that in Srebrenica in 1993 the people had ‘enough food, cows, hens and even a goat’

The Trial Chamber has denied Radovan Karadzic’s motion to recall 12 witnesses who testified about the crimes committed in the municipalities listed in the indictment because he wanted to further cross-examine them in The Hague

Mirsada Malagic testified today at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. After the fall of the Srebrenica enclave, Malagic’s husband, two sons and several other relatives were killed. Karadzic tried to blame the killings in Srebrenica on the individuals who had quarreled with their Muslim acquaintances and now wanted to ‘get even’ with them

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic the prosecution showed an interactive CD with identification and presentation of the sites recorded by Belgrade journalist Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac on 13 and 14 July 1995 in the Srebrenica region.

In a bid to contest the reliability of a book and interactive CD produced by the prosecution, Karadzic called on the Sun and shadows to help him. The book and CD are based on the video footage recorded by Belgrade journalist Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac. French inspector Jean-Rene Ruez, former head of the OTP Srebrenica investigation team, began his evidence later today

In a bid to challenge allegations he was responsible for the shelling of the Markale town market and for the hostage crisis, Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic has sought to interview Greek president Papoulias and French Sgt.-Chef Dubant. Karadzic contends that Papoulias’s evidence would be relevant because of the ‘religious and historical ties between Serbia and Greece’ and Dubant's because of his involvement in the investigation after the Markale shelling

French inspector Jean-Rene Ruez, former head of the OTP Srebrenica investigation team, continued his evidence at the trial of Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic. Using maps, photos, aerial images and videos, Ruez began his reconstruction of the events in the Srebrenica enclave after the arrival of Mladic’s troops in July 1995

The examination-in chief of the former head of the Srebrenica investigation Jean-Rene Ruez was completed today. American forensic anthropologist William Haglund was called next. From 1996 to 1998, Haglund was involved in the exhumation of mass graves in Cerska, Orahovac and the Branjevo farm

In the cross-examination of forensic anthropologist William Haglund, Karadzic tried to prove that most of the victims from the Srebrenica mass graves had died in combat. ‘People do not fight blindfolded’, responded the witness. Haglund dismissed Karadzic’s suggestion that the blindfolds were ribbons that warriors wore around their heads that ‘accidentally slipped over the victims’ eyes’ as the bodies decomposed

Continuing his cross-examination of the former head of the Srebrenica investigation Jean-Rene Ruez, the accused Karadzic tried to prove that the victims exhumed from mass graves in the Srebrenica area had been soldiers killed in combat, before and in July 1995. The witness countered by saying that a great quantity of evidence, including documents of the VRS Zvornik Brigade seized by the OTP, showed the exact opposite. The mass graves are the result of ‘the extermination of prisoners’, Ruez said

Radovan Karadzic completed his cross-examination of Jean-Rene Ruez. Insisting that ‘numbers are important’, Radovan Karadzic counted 60 to 70 persons on an aerial photo of the football field in Nova Kasaba taken on 13 July 1995. Ruez replied that he never actually thought to count the prisoners, but, as far as numbers were concerned, he put his trust in the VRS documents, which show that more than 1,000 persons were arrested that day in the Nova Kasaba area. After Ruez completed his evidence, the prosecution called protected witness KDZ 333, a survivor of the execution at the Branjevo farm

Former logistics officer in the VRS 10th Sabotage Detachment has testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Soldiers from the Detachment participated in the execution of Muslim captives at the Branjevo farm on 16 July 1995

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the prosecution called his former secretary Mira Mihajlovic. Mihajlovic explained the meaning of minus and plus signs in the former Republika Srpska president’s log book

Srbislav Davidovic testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Davidovic said that the problem of Muslim captives from Srebrenica was an exercise in passing the buck. Davidovic recounted how he told the SDS president in Bratunac, Miroslav Deronjic, to get in touch with the ‘president’ or someone from the party leadership and learn from them what to do with the busloads of Muslim captives in Bratunac. Deronjic’s close friend from Bratunac Milinko Katanic was called by the prosecution next

Milenko Katanic from Bratunac spoke in his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic how his close friend Miroslav Deronjic ‘tried to save the honor of Bratunac’ when he managed to convince Ljubisa Beara not to keep thousands of Muslims in Bratunac. Deronjic, who had pleaded guilty before the Tribunal, persuaded Beara to ‘at least distribute them evenly in accommodation facilities in several municipalities’, Katanic said

Former security officer in the Bratunac Brigade is testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. As the witness said, the fate of the citizens of Srebrenica had already been decided before the third meeting in the Fontana Hotel in Bratunac even started on 12 July 1995. Before the meeting, Popovic and Kosoric used more or less the same words telling Nikolic that ‘all balijas must be killed’ and their women and children deported. The witness later saw it happen

Momir Nikolic continues his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Nikolic described how Ratko Mladic first promised the Muslim captives on 13 July 1995 that nothing would happen to them. He then indicated to the witness what fate actually awaited the prisoners: he slashed with his hand from left to right. On 13 July 1995, the witness said, everybody knew that the prisoners would be killed. The only question was where they would be executed: in Bratunac or in Zvornik

In his cross-examination of security officer in the Bratunac Brigade Momir Nikolic, the accused Radovan Karadzic insisted that ‘personal vendettas’ and the fact the war was not fought by professional soldiers but by people who had taken up arms led to the Srebrenica tragedy in July 1995

In the final part of Momir Nikolic’s cross-examination, Radovan Karadzic claimed that the clashes in Podrinje were the result of the ‘pathological hatred’; the events followed the ‘age-old pattern’ and ‘laws of chaos’, not anyone’s orders. Nikolic dismissed the possibility that the VRS operations were not planned and organized. Nikolic accepted his part of the responsibility for ‘terrible crimes’ committed in Srebrenica in July 1995, and as a result could ‘rest easier’. He would advise others to do the same

War reporter from the London newspaper The Independent is testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. After seeing videos made by Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac, the witness published an article about the ‘horror in Srebrenica’ on 17 July 1995. The airing of the video made the Republika Srpska president angry, the witness said. The RS authorities quickly seized Pirocanac’s videos. The mass murders after the fall of Srebrenica were no secret on either side of the Drina river

Canadian Serb Milan Lesic brought thousands of Canadian dollars and German marks to Republika Srpska. As a token of gratitude, Karadzic gave him a pistol and Mladic gusle. The fact that the witness saw Karadzic and Mladic last in 2001 in Belgrade, when they were fugitives from international justice, speaks about the depth of their friendship. VRS general Ljubomir Obradovic started his evidence later today

VRS general Ljubomir Obradovic testifies at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the structure and functioning of the VRS Main Staff. Obradovic confirmed that the former Republika Srpska president received reports from the corps level. The witness contends that he didn’t know anything about the huge number of Muslim prisoners after the fall of the Srebrenica enclave

As he cross-examined General Ljubomir Obradovic, Karadzic tried to prove that he didn’t receive any ‘dramatic’ information about the crimes during the VRS operation in the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995. Karadzic renounced the Directive Seven from March 1995 which orders ‘restrictive issuing of permits’ for the passage of convoys to the enclave in order to make the civilians and UNPROFOR ‘dependent’ on the goodwill of the Bosnian Serb state and military authorities

Retired VRS general Ljubomir Obradovic completed his evidence today, and the prosecution called former member of the VRS 10th Sabotage Detachment, Drazen Erdemovic. He pleaded guilty to his part in the execution of Muslim detainees at the Branjevo farm on 16 July 1995. Erdemovic dismissed Karadzic’s suggestion that he had volunteered to perform that task. ‘I cannot explain why that day we were ordered to execute the civilians’, the witness said

In the cross-examination of Drazen Erdemovic, Radovan Karadzic revisited the well-worn conspiracy theory about the involvement of the French intelligence service in ‘what was done’ in Srebrenica. The prosecutor asked the accused to clarify ‘what is that was done’. Karadzic rashly replied ‘the liquidations and executions in July 1995’ and soon regretted what he had done

General Manojlo Milovanovic said at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that he learned about the war crimes committed by Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan’s volunteers at a later date, from the media and the Tribunal. Milovanovic contends that the crimes were committed ‘outside of the state framework’. He called them ‘private terrorism’

As Manojlo Milovanovic continued his evidence, he spoke about the infamous Directive 7 and the creation of unbearable living conditions for the population in the Srebrenica enclave. He also described a meeting of the Supreme Command at which Karadzic commended the private agencies involved in the ‘export of personnel’, saying it was his ‘innermost wish’ to have as few Muslims of military age in BH as possible

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of General Manojlo Milovanovic. Karadzic shifted the blame on his war advisors who ‘were ignorant and incompetent’. Karadzic insisted on his disagreements with ‘the indestructible’ Ratko Mladic. Karadzic had been trying to remove Mladic from his post to no avail

In the final part of his cross-examination of General Manojlo Milovanovic, the accused Radovan Karadzic quoted from the witness’s book Truths and Misconceptions about the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He quoted only those parts of the book that corroborated his case, and only those he knew the witness would confirm

Dean Manning has testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Manning headed a team of investigators who collected and classified forensic evidence on the executions and burial of Srebrenica victims in July 1995. Karadzic contends that the investigators were ‘sloppy’: they failed to take notice of the details that are glaringly obvious to him today – that the blindfolds and ligatures were made of satin and velvet and that some victims had their checkbooks and health insurance cards with them. At that time, the banks weren’t open and there was no health insurance in Srebrenica, Karadzic argued

American Serb Robert Bob Djurdjevic has testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. The former Republika Srpska president told Djurdjevic at a meeting in Pale on 14 July 1995 that the attacks on Srebrenica and Zepa were the result of his ‘Order No. 7’. Karadzic added that the Bosnian Serbs wanted to ‘raise the temperature to the boiling point’. Former Mladic’s assistant Petar Skrbic began his testimony

In the course of the evidence of General Petar Skrbic, the prosecution insisted that former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic had declared the state of war in Srebrenica on 14 July 1995. According to the prosecution, Karadzic did it in order to allow the army to requisition bulldozers and backhoes needed to dig mass graves where thousands of executed prisoners were buried at that time

Slavica Ristic gave evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic today. On 13 July 1995, Ristic was in the office of the Republika Srpska president and could hear his conversation with General Ratko Mladic who reported that Srebrenica was ‘finished’ and it was Zepa’s turn. Karadzic insisted that the Serb leadership was ‘naïve’ and had all but run the state ‘from a field’

The Trial Chamber has decided to recall Belgrade journalist Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac to The Hague to be cross-examined by Radovan Karadzic. On 13 and 14 July 1995, Pirocanac filmed a report on ‘liberation of Srebrenica’

Two protected witnesses, former members of the BH Army Audio Surveillance Service, were examined as the trial of former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic continued. Karadzic argues that he and other participants in the intercepted conversations were prone to ‘boasting and exaggerations’

The trial of Radovan Karadzic continued with the evidence of a BH MUP operator who was involved in the effort to intercept conversations between various Bosnian Serb politicians and military and police officers. Karadzic denies that he spoke to Milan Gvero on 11 July 1995. Karadzic argued that Gvero addressed the person on the other side of the line as ‘president’ rather than ‘Mr. President’. The other person could very well have been the prime minister, or the president of the government, the president of the Assembly, or a president of a municipality, Karadzic said

Former Republika Srpska president wants to call former Greek foreign minister, now Greek president, Karolos Papoulias, to come to The Hague and testify, willy-nilly, as Karadzic’s defense witness

Dr. Thomas Parsons from the International Commission on Missing Persons testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic and presented the most recent data on the identification of Srebrenica mass graves victims. A total of 6,606 persons have been identified using DNA analysis

In the cross-examination of Dr. Thomas Parsons, Radovan Karadzic claimed he had ‘new information’ on the number of missing persons from Srebrenica. Karadzic claimed that hundreds of persons on the International Commission on Missing Persons list were in fact alive. They were declared dead after their ‘amputated parts’ were transferred somehow from the operating theatres to the DNA labs, Karadzic explained

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, OTP investigator Stephanie Frease confirmed the authenticity and reliability of the conversations intercepted and recorded in 1995 by BH military and police audio surveillance services. Karadzic claimed that when VRS soldiers spoke about the large number of prisoners in the intercepted conversations, they were in fact exaggerating and telling ‘tall tales’. Karadzic also put it to the witness the audio recordings had been further altered in the USA

German nurse Christine Schmitz testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about ‘horrific’ scenes she saw in Srebrenica after the enclave fell: the shelling, the exodus of the population to the UN base in Potocari, their fear and uncertainty, the separation of men from women and children, and single shots she heard from the direction of the house where the men were taken

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, former OTP investigator Dusan Janc presented an updated report on the results of the investigation of Srebrenica mass graves. In the first part of the cross-examination, Karadzic claimed that the witness ‘took for granted’ the results of the international experts’ work

In the final part of the cross-examination of OTP investigator Dusan Janc, the accused Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that in the operation to clean-up the terrain, the mass graves in Srebrenica were filled up with the bodies of the soldiers from the BH Army’s 28th Division, who had been killed in combat, fighting the VRS. The witness contends that there was no operation to clean-up the terrain

The trial of Radovan Karadzic continued with the evidence of a Serb from Zvornik. In his statement to the OTP investigators, the witness described how the Serb forces attacked Zvornik, how Muslims were detained and the mass murders that took place at several locations in the town

Judge O-Gon Kwon’s Trial Chamber called on France to allow Radovan Karadzic’s defense to interview former president of the Prijedor municipality and Crisis Staff Milomir Stakic, who was sentenced by the Tribunal to 40 years in prison for crimes in Prijedor. Karadzic intends to call Stakic as his defense witness

Radovan Karadzic contends that Germany has failed to cooperate with the Tribunal as it is required to by the Tribunal’s Statute. Karadzic has asked the Trial Chamber to advise the ICTY president to report this non-compliance to the UN Security Council

Amor Masovic from the BH Institute for Missing Persons said at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that there were 8,262 persons whose disappearance was related to the events in Srebrenica in July 1995. In the cross-examination, Karadzic contested the figure, referring to the preliminary estimates of the number of missing persons presented at a BH Presidency session in August 1995

In the cross-examination of investigator Tomasz Blaszczyk, Karadzic put it to him that the Serbian authorities had altered the contents of the documents and other materials seized in 2008 and 2010 in Mladic’s wife’s apartment in Belgrade. Karadzic was surprised to learn that apparently ‘his own army’ kept him under surveillance. ‘Everybody and his uncle Abner is eavesdropping on me’, as he put it. Karadzic called for a ten-month break in the trial to allow him to prepare for his defense case

Tomislav Premovic, another American Serb, testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Premovic is convinced that the Western journalists sent ‘falsified’ reports to the world about the conflict in BH. This is why he did not believe the news reports about the crimes of the Serb army in Srebrenica in July 1995

In the first part of his evidence, Richard Butler confirmed that Radovan Karadzic was in command of the army and police and that he issued directives containing political and military guidelines for the war. Butler also confirmed that Karadzic was kept well-informed about the course of the military operations including Operation Krivaja 95 in July 1995. The former supreme commander of the Republika Srpska armed forces is charged with crimes perpetrated in that operation

The Trial Chamber denied yet again Radovan Karadzic’s motion to “exclude all intercepted conversations prior to 6 April 1992” from the record. Karadzic also asked the judges to review the Registry’s decision not to appoint Luka Bogdanovic and Dragomir Keserovic as investigators in Karadzic’s defense team because of their roles in the conflict in BH

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, prosecution military expert Richard Butler described the VRS Srebrenica operation as ‘an operation to kill’ thousands of Bosnian Muslims who had surrendered or been captured after the fall of Srebrenica. As Butler said, the chain of command in Srebrenica ‘functioned exactly as planned’

In the cross-examination of Richard Butler, the accused Radovan Karadzic claimed that the key sentence from Directive 4 – that the enemy should be ‘forced to leave the area of Birac, Zepa and Gorazde together with Muslim population’ had been mistranslated. Karadzic contends that the sentence should be interpreted in the ‘spirit of the Serbian language’. According to Karadzic, the verb ‘to force’ refers only to the enemy army, whereas the population wanted to leave the territory anyway

Radovan Karadzic continued his cross-examination of Richard Butler. He tried to prove that at the time of the VRS operation in Srebrenica he was busy doing other things and that he wasn’t informed about the course of the operation. Karadzic admitted that he personally decided that the VRS should enter Srebrenica but contested the allegations in the indictment about the number of Srebrenica victims. In Karadzic’s view, the number is exaggerated by ‘a factor of five to ten’

Radovan Karadzic has urged the Trial Chamber to issue a subpoena to former Norwegian foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg compelling him to meet with his legal advisor. Karadzic contends that Stoltenberg has information vital for Karadzic’s defense against the accusations that he was responsible for the Markale massacre and that he participated in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at persecuting Bosnian Muslims

Radovan Karadzic has asked for a meeting with RS president Milorad Dodik, in order to persuade him to testify before the Tribunal. The accused is persistent about interviewing the former president of the Prijedor Crisis Staff, Milomir Stakic, who is currently serving his 40-year sentence in a prison in France

In the final part of his cross-examination of the prosecution military and intelligence expert, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that the Srebrenica mass graves in fact contained the remains of the soldiers from BH Army 28th Division. According to Karadzic, the fighters were killed in combat, as they attempted to break through towards Tuzla. Butler dismissed the argument of the accused that an operation to clean up the terrain was conducted in mid-July 1995. As the witness said, no commander would order a clean-up in the middle of a battle. The first wartime prime minister in the RS government, Branko Djeric, began his evidence

As the first Republika Srpska prime minister, Branko Djeric, explained, Radovan Karadzic’s position that the issue of war crimes should be dealt with later and that ‘time is a great healer’ was completely misguided. Not only did it ‘turn out that time is not a great healer’, but problems persisted even after Djeric left the office of the prime minister in December 1992. ‘Small wonder they later escalated’, Djeric remarked

A former official from the Zvornik municipality testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic today, describing his meeting ‘in a hurry’ with Colonel Ljubisa Beara in mid-July 1995, a few days after the fall of Srebrenica. There were a lot of prisoners, Beara said, and they were ‘difficult to control’. The VRS had to ‘get rid’ of them. Beara also said that he had received the order to kill them from ‘the two presidents’. Prosecution demography expert Ewa Tabeau began her evidence later today

Prosecution demographic expert Ewa Tabeau presented her reports which contain the data detailing the ethnic cleansing in the 27 municipalities listed in the indictment against Radovan Karadzic. Tabeau’s reports also contain the data shedding light on the terror campaign against civilians in Sarajevo. The Trial Chamber announced that Karadzic’s defense case would start on 16 October 2012

Dr Ewa Tabeau continued her evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. She presented the latest data on the number of persons whose disappearance is related to the fall of Srebrenica and Zepa in the summer of 1995; the current figure is 8.021 persons. Using DNA analysis, 6,241 persons – 81.1 percent of the victims exhumed from the mass graves – have been identified so far. Karadzic contested the statistical method Dr Tabeau used to support her conclusion that the civilians in Sarajevo were victims of a deliberate terror campaign

In the final part of his cross-examination of the prosecution demographic expert, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that Muslims were not victims of genocide in BH. According to Karadzic, less than 3 percent of the total number of Muslims were killed in the war: this number is far exceeded by the number of Tutsi victims in Rwanda and Jews who were killed in Europe in World War II

Belgrade journalist Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac today accused his American colleague Robert Block of false testimony; he contested Block’s claim that Karadzic and the Pale leadership were ‘very angry’ with Pirocanac because a news report on ‘the liberation of Srebrenica’ was broadcast by the Belgrade TV network Studio B on 15 July 1995. Pirocanac claimed that both Pale and The Hague were happy with his report from Srebrenica

After the evidence of a protected witness testifying as KDZ 971, a survivor of the massacre in the Kravica farm warehouse on 13 July 1995, the prosecution rested its case. The prosecution has called some 200 witnesses in the course of its case

Radovan Karadzic wants the trial to move to Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Belgrade for a week during his case, as this would make it easier to call some witnesses who are serving their prison sentences there

In his latest motion, Radovan Karadzic has asked the Trial Chamber to call on the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska and Serbia to furnish their positions on his ‘initiative’ to hold three one-week trial sessions during his defense case in Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Belgrade

The prosecution supports the continued role of the standby counsel appointed to former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic. The prosecution claims the accused began participating in the prosecution’s case only after British lawyer Richard Harvey was appointed to him, once it became obvious 'the trial would proceed with or without the accused’s participation'

The Trial Chamber in the case against Radovan Karadzic has scheduled a Rule 98 bis hearing for 11 and 13 June 2012. At the hearing, the accused will ask the judges to acquit him on those counts that in his opinion have not been proven by the prosecution in the course of its case

After the prosecution has rested its case and before starting presenting his own evidence, Radovan Karadzic has asked the judges to order the prosecution to amend the indictment and delete all incidents not corroborated by the evidence it has called. The prosecution opposes the request, noting it is merely the latest in a long series of Karadzic’s attempts to reduce the scope of the indictment and ‘circumvent’ the Tribunal’s Rules of Procedure

The Trial Chamber hearing the case against Radovan Karadzic denied his motion in which he petitioned the judges to order the prosecution at the half-time of the trial to amend the indictment and drop from it the incidents which have not been sufficiently proven to secure a conviction

Former president of the Prijedor municipality and crisis staff Milomir Stakic has refused to testify at the trial of former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic. Stakic is currently serving a 40-year sentence in a prison in France. Karadzic wants Fikret Abdic to testify in his defense and has asked Croatia to hand over intercepted conversations of Bosnian leaders

The judges of the Trial Chamber hearing the case against Radovan Karadzic began a site visit in the Srebrenica area. The former president of Republika Srpska is on trial for crimes committed there in July 1995. Karadzic has asked to be allowed to accompany the delegation, SENSE has learned, but the judges have rejected his motion

Radovan Karadzic wants to be acquitted on all counts in his indictment as, in his view, in the past two years the prosecution has failed to prove ‘my fingerprints’ were on the crimes committed in the war in BH

The accused Karadzic claimed that the continued involvement of the standby counsel was unnecessary as he intends to comply with all the orders of the Trial Chamber as the trial continues. English lawyer Richard Harvey will nevertheless remain his ‘standby counsel’ during the defense case

At the half-time of the trial, Radovan Karadzic was acquitted of genocide in seven BH municipalities: Bratunac, Foca, Kljuc, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Vlasenica and Zvornik. The judges found that the prosecution had called enough evidence that may support a conviction on the remaining ten counts in the indictment, including the genocide in Srebrenica

The prosecution sought leave from Judge Kwon’s Trial Chamber to appeal against the judgment acquitting Karadzic of genocide in a number of BH municipalities. At the same time, the prosecution indicated it would petition the Appeals Chamber to quash the acquittal, even if it is not granted leave to do so

Radovan Karadzic’s motion in which he asked the judges to arrange one-week visits to Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Belgrade during the defense case was denied today. Karadzic intended to call as his witnesses persons who are serving sentences in prisons in the region

Radovan Karadzic has sought leave to appeal against the Rule 98 bis judgment which denied his request for acquittal on the charge of taking UN staff hostage in May and June 1995

Radovan Karadzic has asked the Trial Chamber to issue a subpoena to the former US president Bill Clinton, compelling him to meet with his legal advisor. Karadzic wants Clinton to talk about the US involvement in the transfer of arms to BH and the alleged promises of military support. In Karadzic’s view, for the Muslim side, these were ‘motives to stage’ the Markale massacre on 28 August 1995 and thus push NATO into launching air strikes

The prosecution has presented four grounds of appeal against Radovan Karadzic’s acquittal of the charges of genocide in seven municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Prijedor, Kljuc, Sanski Most, Vlasenica, Foca, Bratunac and Zvornik

A month after Radovan Karadzic’s Trial Chamber visited the Srebrenica area, the Tribunal has unsealed the documents detailing the preparations for the visit to the sites of the gravest crime the former Republika Srpska president is charged with

Criticizing Bakir Izetbegovic for purportedly interfering in his case, the accused Karadzic offered the current BH president a ‘more constructive way’ to participate in the trial: he could appear before the Tribunal as Karadzic’s defense witness

Radovan Karadzic was granted leave to appeal against the Rule 98bis judgment in which the judges denied his request to be acquitted of the charge that he had taken UN staff hostages

In his submission to the Trial Chamber, Karadzic has indicated he wants to examine 600 witnesses during his case. For their examination Karadzic would need about 300 hours. He has asked for another 300 hours to refute the 2,300 adjudicated facts that the Trial Chamber has formally taken notice of in his case

Former prisoners in Prijedor prisoner camps Satko Mujagic and Fikret Alic and the Association of Witnesses and Victims of Genocide from Sarajevo have sought leave to address the Appeals Chamber as amici curiae about the judgment acquitting Radovan Karadzic of genocide in seven municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the prosecution rested its case

The Trial Chamber has ordered the defense to deliver by 14 September 2012 a revised witness list, which should conform to the guidelines presented by the judges today. According to them, the guidelines could 'significantly reduce' the number of hours needed for the defense case

Radovan Karadzic will not oppose the request made by the genocide victims to be granted the status of amici curiae. Genocide survivors want to address the Appeals Chamber regarding the judgment delivered by the Trial Chamber after the prosecution rested its case, acquitting the former Republika Srpska president of genocide in seven BH municipalities

Radovan Karadzic has submitted a revised list of witnesses he plans to examine during the defense case, due to open on 16 October 2012. Karadzic has reduced the number of witnesses from 600 to 590. He has also indicated he will be the last witness, if he considers this to be necessary at the end of his case

Instead of 600 hours Karadzic has asked for, the Trial Chamber has granted him 300 hours for the examination-in-chief and re-examination of the witnesses he intends to call in the defense case

The accused intends to call Portuguese diplomat Jose Cutileiro, former international negotiator in the talks about the future of BH. Cutileiro doesn’t want to come to The Hague and the accused has asked the Trial Chamber to issue a subpoena compelling him to testify

The Appeals Chamber today dismissed the motion filed by two former detainees of the prison camps in the Prijedor area, Satko Mujagic and Fikret Alic, and the Association of the Victims of Genocide from Sarajevo in which they sought leave to address the Appeals Chamber as amici curiae in the appellate proceedings following the judgment acquitting Radovan Karadzic of genocide in seven municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former Republika Srpska president has sought leave to file an appeal against the Trial Chamber’s decision granting him 300 hours for his case. The Trial Chamber had allotted the same amount of time to the prosecution for its case. Karadzic asked for double the amount to examine about 600 witnesses and refute more than 2,000 adjudicated facts from other cases

The prosecution has filed its appellate brief against the judgment acquitting Radovan Karadzic of genocide in several BH municipalities. Karadzic was acquitted after the prosecution rested its case. The prosecution wants the genocide charge to be restored to the indictment against former Republika Srpska president

Radovan Karadzic wants the Trial Chamber to issue a subpoena to Radislav Krstic, sentenced to 35 years for aiding and abetting the Srebrenica genocide, compelling him to testify for the defense on 15 January 2013

The Trial Chamber has granted Radovan Karadzic leave to appeal the decision giving him 300 hours for his case. The prosecution was allotted the same amount of time for its case

After an extensive investigation, the Tribunal's Registry has established that Radovan Karadzic had sufficient means to contribute € 146,501.00 towards the costs of his defense. The Tribunal will deduct the amount from future payments to Karadzic's defense team, the decision notes

Radovan Karadzic has filed an interlocutory appeal against the decision of the Trial Chamber to grant him 300 hours to examine defense witnesses. The accused has indicated that in his case, set to begin on 16 October 2012, he will 'contest everything except the weather'.

In the introductory statement at the beginning of the defense case, Radovan Karadzic repeated his oft-repeated arguments about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the blame for it. The only thing Karadzic admitted to was his own 'social and political 'stupidity’ evidenced by his 'excessive trust' in the good intentions of the Muslim and Croat side

Through his first witness, Russian colonel Andrej Demurenko, Radovan Karadzic tried to corroborate his claim that the Markale incident on 28 August 1995 'was shamelessly staged'. A total of 43 people were killed and 75 were wounded in the incident

The prosecution continued cross-examining Colonel Andrey Demurenko, insisting that the fact he was Russian affected his actions at the time when he served as the chief of staff in the UNPROFOR Sector Sarajevo. It also affected his investigation of the Markale incident, the prosecution argued. Demurenko did not deny ‘Serbs are a nation dear to the Russians’, but dismissed claims he and other members of the Russian contingent enjoyed special treatment from the Serb forces

In the examination-in chief of his second defense witness, Radovan Karadzic said that the Irish general marked the position of the BH Army mortar as the 'direction from which the shells were fired on the Markale market’ in late August 1995. The witness contends he has never said anything of the sort. The only thing the witness did was mark the location of a BH Army mortar position he discovered in December 1995

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Blagoje Kovacevic, former commander of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the VRS 1st Sarajevo Motorized Brigade, said that the Serb forces didn't use snipers and mortars to target civilians in Sarajevo

In the written statement he gave to Radovan Karadzic's defense, Milos Skrba claimed that the Serb troops manning the positions south of Sarajevo didn't have 120 mm mortars. In the cross-examination, the former VRS commander admitted he had ‘no knowledge of the positions where the mortars were deployed and who used them'

Radovan Karadzic's defense witness claims that the VRS used footage shown by the Sarajevo TV to decide that the City Hall was used as a 'big ammunition depot'. The footage showed people carrying ammunition boxes and 'walking around the City Hall', Dusan Skrba said. The witness said he doubted that the fire in August 1992 could have been caused by VRS shells because the 'fire spread from the ground up, not from the roof down'

Modified air bombs were inaccurate but very destructive and could miss the target by up to two kilometers, says the former operations officer in the VRS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps. The witness contends that modified air bombs were consequently never used in the city. The prosecution contested the claim with a document of the VRS Main Staff in which Karadzic is told that an air bomb was dropped on the center of Hrasnica

Radovan Karadzic continued his defense case by tendering into evidence Sinisa Maksimovic's written statement. During the war, Maksimovic commanded a VRS company in Mrkovici. The unit held positions on Spicasta Stijena, also known as Sharpstone. The witness contends that his unit fired on the enemy from that position only ‘when it was necessary’

The Trial Chamber rejected Karadzic’s motion to issue a subpoena to former Greek president Karlos Papoulias, compelling him to testify in the defense case. Karadzic wanted Papoulias to testify about what Karadzic told him in 1994 and 1995 about the first massacre at the Markale market, the capture of UN soldiers and his wish to participate in peace negotiations

Radovan Karadzic continued his defense case by calling three Canadian officers in a bid to contest the accusations related to the shelling of the Markale market on 5 February 1994. As alleged in the indictment, 66 persons were killed and over 140 wounded in explosion of a mortar shell

Karadzic's defense expert contends that based on the information he received from the defense it was impossible to determine the location from which the shell was fired on the Markale market on 5 February 1994. The expert witness did not visit the scene and he readily agreed with the prosecution that he didn't have any grounds to contest the findings of the experts who had actually been at the scene of the incident. The expert witness dismissed the defense's claims that the mortar shell could have been thrown manually from a nearby roof, that a stationary explosive device could have caused the incident and that the shell could have been buried beneath the asphalt

Two defense witnesses called by Radovan Karadzic deny that the shell that hit the Markale market on 5 February 1994 was fired from Serb positions. Ukrainian lieutenant colonel Moroz says he had been told by a Russian man that the explosion had been caused by a planted special device. A former VRS officer contends that on that day Serbs did not violate the ceasefire

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness Momir Garic denies he took part in several intercepted conversations describing an attack Garic’s unit launched on the area around Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo. Garic says he couldn’t recall ever having those conversations, and claims the voice sounded like ‘that of a child’. He also said there were no such attacks. The witness was also adamant that his nickname was not ‘Momo’; this nickname was used in the audio recordings

Karadzic’s defense claimed that a joint commission comprising the VRS and UNPROFOR visited a Serb mortar position on Mrkovici on 6 February 1994, a day after the Markale massacre. The joint commission purportedly concluded that fire had not been opened from that position. The prosecution contends that the commission ‘didn’t exist’; if it did, it only ‘served as a cover’

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness claims that Serbs in the Rajlovac area launched peace initiatives, while Muslims launched attacks. The prosecution contends that the capture of Ahatovici was part of a wider plan to remove Croats and Muslims from towns and villages in the Serb municipality of Rajlovac

Slobodan Tusevljak, commander of the fourth platoon in the 1st Sarajevo Mechanized Brigade claimed, as did previous Radovan Karadzic’s witnesses, that the Serb army engaged only in defensive actions, that it was ‘cautious’ and didn’t fire on civilians in Sarajevo

Richard Gray, a colonel from New Zealand, contends that killing people in Sarajevo was part of a general strategy pursued by the Bosnian government to provoke an international intervention. In the examination-in-chief, Gray claimed that Karadzic ‘had a genuine interest in peace’. However, in the cross-examination, the witness denied that what he was quoted as saying in the New York Times, that ‘Serbs wanted peace’ was true

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness contends that the BH Army had more heavy weapons in Sarajevo than the VRS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps. The witness also claims that the Serb forces never used ‘punishment shelling’ as a tactic. According to the prosecution, that was an ‘integral element’ of the artillery attacks on Sarajevo

Former Bosnian Serb president has filed a motion asking the judges to issue a subpoena to Naser Oric, compelling him to testify in his case. According to Karadzic, Oric’s testimony may help prove the defense’s case that in the summer of 1995 the Bosnian government ‘sacrificed Srebrenica’ and that the order to attack the enclave was justified by military necessity

As have most of Radovan Karadzic’s previous witnesses, former VRS member contends that the Serb forces in the Sarajevo battlefield defended themselves and only engaged military targets in self-defense

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness Dusan Zurovac, former commander of a VRS company on Hrasno Brdo, accused the BH Army of indiscriminate shelling, opening sniper fire on civilians and even setting up the siege of Sarajevo. Two commanders of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps have already been convicted of these crimes before the Tribunal. Zurovac contends that the city looked the same before and after the war

Through witness Zeljka Malinovic, Radovan Karadzic tried to prove that the BH Army used medical facilities as firing positions. Miladin Trifunovic, another defense witness, doesn’t think it was bad to take Muslim prisoners to do forced work, resulting in casualties; his justification is that they were on the front line side by side with Serb soldiers

In the final part of the cross-examination of Miladin Trifunovic, the prosecution noted that the paramilitary groups and the VRS fought side by side and received funds from municipal budget. Radovan Karadzic called Velimir Dunjic as his next witness. Dunjic admitted that Branislav Bane Gavrilovic’s unit was under his command but wasn’t aware that the unit members had done anything illegal

The Trial Chamber in the trial of Radovan Karadzic decided not to admit the entire statement made by defense witness Branislav Dukic and parts of the statements made by Radojka Pandurevic and Angelina Pikulic in which they speak about the crimes the BH Army committed in Sarajevo. The judges reminded Karadzic that he was not on trial for opening fire on the BH Army but on civilians. The revenge as a motive for crimes was not relevant for establishing the responsibility of the accused, the Trial Chamber noted

Karadzic’s defense witnesses deny that the Serb troops were responsible for incidents listed in the indictment: the shelling of a water queue in Dobrinja and the attack with a modified air bomb on the University Hospital in Dositejeva Street in Sarajevo. The first witness claimed that the Serb side couldn’t see the street in Dobrinja. The other witness, despite saying he didn’t know where Dositejeva Street was, ‘assumed’ that the VRS didn’t launch the air bomb. According to the witness, he didn’t hear it and ‘it was not likely I would miss such a noise’

The defense case continued at the trial of Radovan Karadzic with the evidence of Angelina Pikulic from Pofalici and Radojka Pandurevic from Hadzici. The parts about the alleged crimes committed by the BH Army against Serbs were deleted from their written statements. According to the Trial Chamber, the information is not relevant for the defense. Karadzic did manage to ‘sneak in’ a few claims about these allegations

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness contends that before responding to the BH Army fire from Alipasino Polje, the Ilidza Brigade first established if there were civilians in the 200-meter radius from the target to avoid civilian casualties. The prosecutor noted that the witness had never mentioned that piece of information in the statements he had given to the defense team

Dragan Maletic, former commander of a company that held the positions between the Vrbanja Bridge and the Bratstva i jedinstva Bridge in Sarajevo, gave evidence as Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness. Maletic claimed that the Serb snipers didn’t operate from the Metalka building and the skyscraper in Lenjinova Street in Grbavica. After Maletic completed his evidence, Karadzic called Blasko Rasevic, commander of a platoon in Mrkovici

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, witness Zdravko Cvora said he could ‘guarantee that Muslims were not forced to move out of Pale’, despite the fact that in a letter to Biljana Plavsic in July 1992 Cvoro complained about ‘Muslims being forced to move out’

The prosecution contends that the Bosnian Serb political leadership protected Veselin Vlahovic Batko, and he was thus able to abuse and kill non-Serbs in Grbavica for months with impunity. The former president of the Executive Board of the Novo Sarajevo municipality agreed that Vlahovic could have been arrested earlier but denied that the civilian authorities supported Vlahovic

Dragan Miokovic, an investigator from Sarajevo, was involved in a number of crime scene investigations of artillery and sniper attacks on civilians during the siege of the city. Miokovic said that the army under the command of the accused Ratko Mladic meant to cause fear and panic among the population in order to achieve military and political goals. This, in Miokovic’s words, is a ‘typical characteristic of terrorism’

In his evidence in Karadzic’s defense, Colonel Vladimir Radojcic provided his interpretation of an order issued to the Ilidza Brigade to open artillery fire on the ‘most profitable target in Hrasnica where it will inflict the greatest human casualties and physical destruction’. The witness claimed that the ‘military terminology’ used in the order meant ‘firing on personnel’ - soldiers

Two former members of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps confirmed Radovan Karadzic’s claims that the Bosnian Serbs were innocent of the crimes against the citizens of Sarajevo. The two witnesses then had to clarify their involvement in the war crimes. Zeljko Bambarez had to explain the use of prisoners as forced labor in dangerous conditions. One of the Tribunal’s previous judgments identified Milorad Sehovac as the person who ordered a man to be killed

Former assistant commander in the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps Luka Dragicevic contends that he didn’t know that modified air bombs were launched on Sarajevo, although he himself ordered their use several times. In an eventful cross-examination, the witness admitted that the bombs were not launched from airplanes but didn’t know if they were launched from ‘the ground or a truck’ or maybe even from a ‘platform in the sea or a river’

Dr Mirjana Andjelkovic Lukic, explosives expert called by Karadzic’s defense, contests the finding of Professor Berko Zecevic that air bombs launched on Sarajevo during the siege had aerosol charges. Karadzic’s witness agreed that the bombs were fired from ground launchers instead of being dropped from planes. The air bombs were never tested

Former member of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps Staff Ratomir Maksimovic contends that Sarajevo was shelled from Serb positions ‘only in extreme necessity’; civilian casualties were ‘collateral damage’. Maksimovic denied that the Corps armed paramilitary groups fighting under his command. Karadzic then called two other witnesses

Karadzic was granted a motion for a subpoena to compel Edin Garaplija to testify. Garaplija, former Bosnian police officer, said in his interview with the OPT investigators in 2000 that some of the sniper and artillery incidents had been staged to make them look as if the Bosnian Serbs were to blame

In the cross-examination of one of the defense witnesses, the prosecutor showed a document indicating that ‘citizens of Muslim ethnicity’ were detained in Vogosca municipality. This prompted the accused to react vociferously, saying they were not civilians because, as it was known, ‘citizens fight in a civil war’

A former VRS member who fought in Slavko Aleksic’s group during the war testified in Radovan Karadzic’s defense. The witness said that despite the beard and long hair his commander looked more like ‘Moses’ than a Chetnik warlord

The judges grant Radovan Karadzic’s motion and will issue a subpoena to Portuguese diplomat Jose Cutileiro compelling him to give evidence at Karadzic’s trial. Cutileiro was the mediator in the peace talks in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Karadzic’s last witness for this year, Colonel Mihajlo Vujasin contends that the people from the village of Ahatovici near Sarajevo left their houses ‘voluntarily’ after the arrival of the Serb army. They could return once the fighting was over, but decided not to, Vujasin argued. The trial resumes on 15 January 2013

The Trial Chamber believes that conditions haven’t yet been met for it to issue a subpoena to the former commander of the defense of Srebrenica compelling him to come to The Hague and testify in Radovan Karadzic’s defense. A similar motion for a subpoena for Ranko Mijic, former crime police chief in Prijedor, has also been denied

US professor Ronald Hatchet contends that in 1994 President Clinton ‘liked’ Karadzic’s proposal to divide BH into two entities. The State Department rejected the idea although an almost identical solution was accepted in Dayton at a later date. Colonel Milosav Gagovic testified about ‘the internal siege of Sarajevo’, ‘the neutral JNA’ and ‘defending Serb positions around the city’

A Canadian intelligence officer gave his evidence under protective measures. He claimed that he saw ‘from a distance of three meters’ a photo showing a bomb being thrown out of a window at the Markale town market in February 1994. The witness did not find it at all strange that the photo was purportedly taken from a place where 66 persons were killed and 140 wounded while the photographer and his camera remained unscathed. Two more military officers testified in Karadzic’s defense, one from the US and the other from Great Britain. The court also heard a former UNPROFOR soldier who testified with identity protection measures, in French

Ilija Miscevic, an ethnic Serb from Sarajevo, claims that the Serb army shelled Hrasnica only after fire was opened from that neighborhood. However, one ‘should be honest and say’ that shells fell on civilian buildings ‘in other cases, when there was no fire’. The witness’s skyscraper was hit hundreds of times during the war and civilians of all ethnicities were killed by the shells. A prison guard from Foca who testified next said he ‘doesn’t know anything’ about the rapes

Karadzic’s defense witness testifying under protective measures has put forth one of the most original theories about the first Markale market attack. The witness claimed that after the attack UNPROFOR received intelligence that the Mujahideen fired the shell: they targeted Jews who were leaving the city that day, but the shell missed and hit the town market. In the cross-examination the witness admitted that he never saw any Mujahideen in Sarajevo

A former Serb soldier from Foca and a municipality official from Ilidza testified in Radovan Karadzic’s defense. The witnesses claimed that in 1992 Muslim civilians voluntarily left those municipalities and that the Serb authorities helped them by providing transportation. The prosecution contends that the ‘help’ took the form of detention, rape, abuse, murder and other forms of repression

The former commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija, serving a 29 years sentence for artillery and sniper terror campaign in Sarajevo, began his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. A Sarajevo-Romanija Corps officer and a local official from the Ilidza municipality in Sarajevo gave their evidence before the former SRK commander

General Dragomir Milosevic contends that the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps never attacked civilians in Sarajevo. He blamed the other side for the civilian casualties, saying that the BH Army attacked ‘its own citizens’. Sometimes they did it on purpose, to blame the attacks on the Serbs, and sometimes by accident when they mishandled the mortars or when the criminal clans in the city fought each other, Milosevic explained

Former liaison officer in the VRS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps Milenko Indjic contends that the Muslims ‘organized’ the massacre in Srebrenica by provoking the Serbs. According to Indjic, Serbs responded to the provocation and killed thousands of men of military age

Vasvija Vidovic, attorney from Sarajevo, warned Radovan Karadzic that Naser Oric’s testimony could be ‘very harmful’ and ‘seriously damage’ his defense. The Trial Chamber issued safe conduct orders for Karadzic’s defense witnesses Edin Garaplija and Aleksandar Vasiljevic

At the time of the second attack on the Sarajevo market, the commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps was undergoing medical treatment in Belgrade. When he returned, subordinate officers told him that they hadn’t shelled the city on 28 August 1995, Milosevic said. Milosevic admitted that he had ordered the shelling of Sarajevo with modified air bombs but denied that they were as inaccurate as the prosecution claimed

Former commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps Dragomir Milosevic contends that his unit launched artillery attacks only on military targets and used snipers to respond to snipers operating from the city. According to Milosevic, his corps prevented crimes against non-Serb population around Sarajevo

In his statement to Radovan Karadzic’s defense, former head of the National Security Service in Ilidza Srdjan Sehovac claims that Croats and Muslims acted against Serbs. UNPROFOR, humanitarian organizations and Western media did the same

In the cross-examination, the prosecutor brought up the evidence of numerous witnesses who had already testified at Karadzic’s trial that the Bosnian Serb fired on Sarajevo indiscriminately; as a result, no building was left intact. Had his corps attacked the city without any control, General Dragomir Milosevic replied, Sarajevo would have been turned to ‘ashes and dust’

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness, former commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, contends that the BH authorities and the BH Army were responsible for the fact that the Bosnian Serb army bullets sometimes ‘accidentally hit’ Sarajevo trams. The witness admitted that in some situations some ‘deranged people on the Serb side’ may have fired on the civilians in the city

American Serb Srdja Trifkovic tried to convince the Trial Chamber that the accused Radovan Karadzic didn’t have contacts with Ratko Mladic on 13 July 1995 as the operation in Srebrenica unfolded. The prosecutor argued he was biased because he used to be the spokesman of the Bosnian Serb leadership. As an ‘analyst’ he was obsessed with Islam, the prosecutor insisted: Trifkovic labeled that religion a ‘psychosis’ and called for the deportation of Muslims from Western countries

Former Bosnian secret service agent Edin Garaplija testified about the ‘shocking’ information he learned in the course of Operation Eagle, as he interrogated Nedzad Herenda, former member of the paramilitary unit called the Larks. In the interrogation, Herenda purportedly admitted that he had personally killed a UN French member in 1995 – ‘so that the UN would blame Serbs for it’, and that the Larks unit was responsible for an attempt on Sefer Halilovic’s life in 1993

Although he has been given a subpoena compelling him to testify, former VRS general Radislav Krstic has refused to testify in the defense case of the former RS president Radovan Karadzic, claiming his ‘mental and physical health’ deteriorated. The Trial Chamber has demanded ‘additional medical reports’ on Krstic’s health

Radovan Karadzic has filed a new motion to the Trial Chamber asking it to issue a subpoena to Naser Oric to compel him to testify in the defense case. Karadzic is ‘aware of the potential damage’ to his defense case through the former BH Army brigadier’s testimony

Karadzic expects the former commander of the RS police units involved in the Srebrenica operation to confirm that there ‘was no plan to kill the captives’ from Srebrenica or to exterminate Muslims as an ethnic and religious group. Karadzic also anticipates Borovcanin will say that he never informed Karadzic as the commander-in-chief of the RS armed forces about the executions of prisoners

Radovan Karadzic has filed a motion asking the Trial Chamber to issue a guarantee to the former Trebinje mayor Bozidar Vucurevic that he wouldn’t be arrested on the indictment that has been issued against him in Croatia for the shelling of Dubrovnik, but would be allowed to travel to The Hague and back to give evidence as a defense witness

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witnesses tried to paint a rosier picture of the situation in the facilities described in the indictment as ‘prison camps’ under the Bosnian Serb control. The witnesses thus said that they were ‘collection centers’, ‘transit stations’ and ‘safe houses’. According to the witnesses, Muslims went there voluntarily because they didn’t feel safe in their homes

Former assistant to the BH interior minister Vitomir Zepinic testified today as Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness, yet he told the court he was an ‘idiot because I did not arrest’ the accused before the war broke out. Zepinic claimed that his mother had been killed because of his conflicts with the Pale leadership, and he revealed that the RS president ‘went gambling with Arkan’ in Belgrade as roadblocks were put up in Sarajevo

Witness Vitomir Zepinic said that he and Karadzic privately shared the same view of Yugoslavia, feeling that it should be kept alive. Yet in public, the accused, as the SDS president, advocated a ‘rump Yugoslavia, a Yugoslavia which would include a Greater Serbia, a small or Greater Croatia and a divided Bosnia’. Zepinic asked the accused why his vision of BH didn’t see it as equal with Serbia and Croatia

Karadzic’s defense witness Tomislav Savkic contends that in mid-July 1995, when he was the president of Milici municipality, he saw ‘hundreds and thousands’ of the bodies of Bosnian Muslims in the hills in the Konjevic Polje area. He was told that most of them had been killed as they fought each other, while some died as they tried to cross mine fields and in clashes with the Serb army. The Bosnian Serb military and police documents, however, don’t report any such incidents

Former guard in the Susica prison camp Momir Deuric claimed that he ‘didn’t hear and see’ the abuse and murder of Muslim civilians. He even dismissed the story of a detainee who recounted how the witness had saved him from certain death. The two other witnesses Karadzic called today in his defense denied Serb crimes in Eastern BH

The accused Radovan Karadzic and his defense witness, Portuguese diplomat Jose Cutileiro claim from their different points of view that the Lisbon Agreement could have saved the peace in BH. The prosecutor recalled that the Bosnian Serb leadership saw the document just as the ‘beginning of the end of BH’ and the basis for the capture of the territories they claimed as their own

Former president of the Vlasenica municipality and Crisis Staff voiced his ‘suspicions’ that the prosecution was given ‘custom-made documents by someone in order to verify false stories’. One of the ‘false stories’ is that the Serbs forcibly seized power in the municipality and expelled and detained Muslims

The prosecution contested the claims of the former president of the Republika Srpska Supreme Military Court about the efficiency of the local military judiciary during the war. A few days after the massacre in Srebrenica, the British daily The Independent wrote about it in detail, the prosecutor argued, yet the military prosecutors from Zvornik, which was close to the crime scenes, didn’t do anything about the crime

The Trial Chamber guarantees to Bozidar Vucurevic, former Trebinje mayor, that he will not be arrested, detained and prosecuted in relation to an indictment issued in Croatia against him for the shelling of Dubrovnik. He will thus be able to travel to The Hague safely. Radovan Karadzic has called Vucurevic to testify in his defense

Former chief of the Drina Corps Information Service Zoran Jovanovic contends that he ‘conducted journalistic investigations’ and he established the identity of those who committed the crimes against Serbs in the villages around Vlasenica. At the same time Jovanovic didn’t find out who was responsible for the destruction of the town mosque despite the fact that he personally captured the event on camera. The witness was likewise unable to learn anything about the crimes against Muslims in the Susica prison camp although he visited it during the war at least once

The Trial Chamber concluded that Fikret Abdic’s evidence could be relevant for Radovan Karadzic’defense. However, the Chamber denied Karadzic’s request to issue a subpoena. The judges stressed that the accused could obtain similar information from other witnesses

In his testimony before the Tribunal in the defense of Slobodan Milosevic, former Serbian foreign minister Vladislav Jovanovic blamed the Bosnian Serb leadership for the shelling of Sarajevo and the ethnic cleansing in BH. Today Jovanovic was forced to modify his previous claims to suit the needs of Radovan Karadzic’s defense

Former Serbian and Yugoslav foreign minister Vladislav Jovanovic contends that in 1995 he found the reports on Muslims killing each other in Srebrenica ‘implausible’. In the meantime, just before he was due to testify in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, he received information that made these claims ‘less implausible’. Now Jovanovic is less sure that the Bosnian Serbs were the only culprits

In his testimony in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, former Montenegrin president and FRY prime minister Momir Bulatovic has claimed that no one was expelled during the war in BH. According to Bulatovic, there were just ‘regular’ movements of the people. Such movements occur every 50 years because of the ‘collective mentality of the people’, who decide that they should move to the territory controlled by their own ethnic community

In his previous statements, former Montenegrin president and federal prime minister Momir Bulatovic claimed that the Bosnian Serbs had committed crimes. Now, as he testified in the defense of Radovan Karadzic, Bulatovic tried to relativize his previous views, saying there was no systematic plan for ethnic cleansing. As he explained, it was a ‘time of madmen’: paramilitaries who couldn’t be forced inside a legal framework

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witnesses contend that there were no prison camps in the territory under the Bosnian Serb control – this time in Hadzici municipality. Only those who committed crimes were held in prisons, the witnesses claimed. Witness Mladen Tolj admitted that ‘during the war, there was no difference between a reception center and a prison’

Former JNA top intelligence officer, General Aleksandar Vasiljevic, contends that the JNA was neutral: it clashed with the Croat and Muslim sides in BH because their ‘paramilitary units attacked it’, Vasiljevic explained. Vasiljevic argued that the JNA protected Serbs because they in turn supported the JNA and didn’t want to live in ‘banana republics’

Karadzic’s defense witness worked in the military department 300 meters from the notorious Luka prison camp in Brcko. He nevertheless contends that he ‘heard [about the crimes in the prison camp], but had no official information’. The witness also ‘heard, but didn’t know’ that Captain Dragan’s special unit was training in the town several months before the war began. The witness ‘knew but didn’t have anything to do with’ other paramilitary units

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Milivoje Kicanovic from Bijeljina claimed that Muslims left the town because they wanted to. The local Serbs helped them to reach the separation lines. Some Serbs felt they deserved a Nobel Prize for their efforts. VRS Lieutenant colonel Desimir Sarenac said that the citizens of Sarajevo shelled themselves, either deliberately or accidentally

In the cross-examination, Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness Desimir Sarenac contended that the VRS was not responsible for the massacres of Sarajevo civilians in the bread and water queues. To be able to hit such narrow spaces, the shells had to be ‘either brought in by a bird’ or guided by laser

Former deputy police chief in Vlasenica testified today as Karadzic’s defense witness. Mane Djuric claims that he didn’t know about the plans to execute the prisoners captured in Srebrenica in July 1995. The witness said that the deputy interior minister told him the police should ‘secure the routes for the transportation of the detainees and not interfere’

Tomislav Puhalac, who was deputy chief of the National Security Center in Lukavica during the war, and former assistant justice minister Slobodan Avlijas gave evidence at the trial of the former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic. In 1992, Avlijas was instructed by the Justice Ministry and President Karadzic to verify ‘rumors’ about prison camps and horrible treatment of detainees throughout BH

Radovan Karadzic examined Momcilo Ceklic, his 101st witness. Ceklic testified about the events in Ilidza municipality. Radovan Karadzic also called Branimir and Aleksandar Tesic to the witness stand. The witnesses - brothers ‘with the same father and mother’ - spent the war in the Bratunac police and the Secretariat for National Defense. In their statements, Branimir and Aleksandar Tesic stated what that they didn’t see in Bratunac in July 1995, after the fall of Srebrenica

Karadzic’s defense witness Aleksandar Tesic denied any knowledge of the events that were known to ‘the housewives’ in Bratunac and on the other bank of the Drina river, as the prosecutor put it to him: that many captured Muslims were killed in Bratunac on 13 July 1995. Even though he knew about the killings at the town football stadium and in the primary school in 1992, Tesic didn’t assume that a ‘new wave of killings’ was about to be unleashed. If he had known it, he would have ‘been worried’ for sure, Tesic said

Radovan Karadzic’s expert witness Stevo Pasalic contested the prosecution’s demographic findings. According to Pasalic, they are overly ‘simplified’. They paint a ‘distorted picture of the past’ and are based on ‘erroneous statistical data’ about the movements of the population in BH

Radovan Karadzic has asked for the disclosure of Milan Babic’s mental health reports because he wants to confirm that Babic suffered from ‘personality disorder’, in a bid to discredit Babic’s testimony. Parts of the statement made by the former Krajina Serb leader were admitted into evidence in Karadzic’s case

Surgeon Veljko Maric claims that all patients in the Foca Hospital were treated the same regardless of their ‘religion, ethnic background or color of skin’. Maric argued that Muslim doctors and other staff left the Foca Hospital ‘voluntarily’. The witness was unaware that some of his Muslim colleagues had been detained in the KP Dom, held in cells without heating, or that they had been starved, killed by diseases or beaten to death

Former official from Bijeljina Svetozar Mihajlovic contends that the Republika Srpska president was manipulated and that his meeting with Zeljko Raznatovic in the fall of 1995 was not planned. The prosecutor noted Karadzic praised Arkan in a speech and handed him certificates that had been prepared in advance. Former president of Bijeljina municipality Cvijetin Simic completed his testimony earlier this morning

Defense witness Mirko Sosic claimed that he was forced to leave Sarajevo in August 1992. According to Sosic, doctors of Serb ethnicity ‘disappeared, were detained and injured’; some were even ‘assassinated’. In a bid to defend the relevance of Sosic’s evidence Karadzic invoked his ‘sense of justice’ and said he wanted to paint a full picture of the events in Sarajevo

Karadzic’s defense witness said that Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan was a ‘mirage’ for both Muslims and Serbs in Bijeljina. Together with Mauzer’s volunteers, Arkan took part in liberating the town, the witness recounted. When he was shown photos, he was able to identify Arkan’s men standing next to dead civilians’ bodies. The second witness heard today testified about the events in Bijeljina. As he explained, he didn’t think Arkan was important and thus didn’t mention him in his statement to the defense team

The Trial Chamber will look at the medical documents about Milan Babic’s mental health before he committed suicide in March 2006 at an in camera hearing, in the absence of the prosecution, the accused and the public. The aim of the Trial Chamber is to establish ‘if there is information in the documents relevant for the accused’ Radovan Karadzic

The appellate hearing on the prosecution’s appeal against the judgment acquitting Radovan Karadzic of genocide in the municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been scheduled for 17 April 2013

Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness tried to contest the findings of the RS government commission on the killing of thousands of Srebrenica Muslims in July 1995. The witness claimed that the truth was not established but didn’t offer his version of the events in Srebrenica

In early 1993, almost all the Muslim residents fled the municipality of Trebinje, but the former mayor of Trebinje is proud of his role there. Muslims claimed that they left Trebinje because of the threats and abuse by the Serb authorities. The witness contradicted their claims, saying they left voluntarily and because of their ‘fanaticism’. Karadzic’s witness was apparently clairvoyant: he said he would build ‘an older and more beautiful Dubrovnik’ once it was torn down, and according to his testimony, this was a reference to the Bosnian Croats saying they would build ‘an older and more beautiful’ Old Bridge in Mostar; the only problem is that the Old Bridge was destroyed two years after the attack on Dubrovnik

Vujadin Stevic nicknamed Dragan testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Stevic admitted that in May 1992 he took part in the arrest of about 20 Muslims in Glogova near Bratunac but denied that he had anything to do with their execution. In his evidence in the prosecution case, Musan Talovic, one of the survivors, said that Stevic asked his superior Najdan Mladjenovic over the radio for instructions ‘what to do with 23 balijas’

With the evidence of Dragomir Obradovic, former commander of the Sokolac police station, Karadzic tried to corroborate his well-known arguments about the Serb police’s protective role and the voluntary departure of the Muslim population. Karadzic also wanted to bolster his argument about his own peace efforts

Although he was involved in the VRS operations in Srebrenica as a member of a Special Police Unit company, Karadzic’s defense witness Dusan Micic contends he doesn’t remember anything relevant from that period. Apart from ‘securing’ the citizens of Srebrenica on 12 July 1995, the witness slept, organized the funeral of a fallen comrade or, simply, had a memory malfunction

During the evidence of Dobrislav Planojevic, former assistant to the Bosnian Serb interior minister, the prosecutor showed that the investigation into the theft of VW Golfs from the Sarajevo TAS factory was much more detailed than any investigation of war crimes against non-Serb civilians in the territory under the control of the accused Radovan Karadzic

Former SDS official Trifko Komad challenged the authenticity of the intercepts in which Karadzic swears and threatens the disobedient party members. As Komad argued, he knew the accused as ‘a superior intellectual and a moral man’ who didn’t use ‘obscenities’. When the witness was shown a video recording of Karadzic swearing before cameras, Komad claimed it was meant as a ‘joke’. Milovan Bjelica, current mayor of Sokolac, began his evidence later today

General Radivoje Miletic has refused to testify as Karadzic’s defense witness without a subpoena. As Miletic has explained, the reason was the pending appeal against the judgment sentencing him to 19 years in prison. Through Miletic’s testimony Karadzic wants to refute the charges of genocide, forcible transfer, deportation and other crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995

Despite the prosecution’s evidence about violence against Muslims in Sokolac, the municipal president Milovan Bjelica contends that during the war Muslims left ‘voluntarily’ as part of a ‘natural process’. As for Bjelica, the view he had advocated, that the ethnic communities in BH couldn’t live together but only ‘side by side’, was enshrined in the Dayton agreement

Gojko Cekic, former commander of the Batkovic prison camp, contends that the detainees in that prisoner facility weren’t beaten, forced to work, carry ammunition or dig trenches. The detainees and guards were on such good terms that ‘friendships flourished’ among them. Youths below the age of 18 were brought in by mistake; this was corrected immediately, the witness claimed

Another convicted VRS general has refused to give evidence in the defense of his former supreme commander, prompting Radovan Karadzic to ask the Trial Chamber to issue a binding order compelling him to appear as a witness

The Trial Chamber has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s motion for a subpoena to the former BH Army commander in Srebrenica Naser Oric to compel him to testify in the defense case. The judges decided that the topics Karadzic wanted to explore through Oric were relevant for the case, but that the information Karadzic could obtain from this witness was not ‘of substantial or considerable assistance’ for the defense of the accused

Former liaison officer in the VRS Main Staff Slavko Kralj testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic today. In an amicable conversation, the witness and the accused agreed that the Muslim side was responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Srebrenica and Zepa, not the Serbs. When Karadzic was cautioned in the re-examination for asking leading questions, he said from the dock that he would learn how to examine witnesses ‘in time for the next war’

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former president of the Foca Executive Board denied that the Crisis Staff had anything to do with the crimes in the municipality. According to the witness, ‘psychopaths and bullies’ who could not be controlled were responsible for the crimes

Former director of the RS power company Elektroprivreda Milorad Skoko remained adamant that during the war Sarajevo had sufficient electricity for ‘basic household needs’. The wartime warden of the Kula prison described the conditions in that facility as entirely satisfying. The witness denied that civilians were detained there. Milorad Dodik will give evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense tomorrow

As he testified in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik blamed the war and all the bad things that happened in BH on Alija Izetbegovic, the international community’s High Representative and the OTP in The Hague. The SDS headed by Karadzic advocated peace and compromise

Former warden of the Kula prison Soniboj Skiljevic contends that during the war the facility served food with no pork to Muslims. The food was prepared using cooking oil, the witness said. At the same time, Skiljevic claimed that prisoners got drunk when they were sent to do forced labor. Former RS prime minister Dusan Kozic denied that Karadzic’s civilian authorities had anything to do with Mladic’s army

Belgrade law professor Kosta Cavoski supported the defense’s argument that Alija Izetbegovic was responsible for the war in BH. Cavoski said that Serbs established crisis staffs before the conflict broke out because they were ‘far-sighted’, not because they had planned to capture the territories they claimed were theirs by force, Cavoski said. The witness admitted that he had sent letters and editions of the journal Christian Thought to Karadzic while he was on the run. The fugitive replied ‘rarely and with delay’

Dr Hicham Malla described the beatings and humiliation in the Stajicevo prison camp in Serbia where he was detained after the fall of Vukovar. Dr Malla claims that in Borovo Naselje he treated and fed Goran Hadzic’s 80-year old uncle. ‘That’s gratitude for you, I was beaten while they ruled Krajina’, the witness said

General Stanislav Galic is trying to defend Radovan Karadzic using the same arguments he had used at his trial, which ended with a life sentence. Galic contends that the Bosnian Serb army only responded to the attacks from Sarajevo and tried hard not to go overboard and endanger the civilians

VRS general Stanislav Galic contends that the ‘enemy’ regularly attacked their own combat positions and civilian targets in the city in order to blame the Serbs for ‘turning Sarajevo into hell’. They used ‘postmortems conducted by their pathologists’ to reinforce the image, Galic exclaimed, obviously referring to the investigations conducted by crime scene technicians

Former president of the Bratunac municipality Ljubisav Simic confirmed that Miroslav Deronjic informed Karadzic about the ‘events’ in Kravica. On 13 July 1995, about 1,000 detainees were killed there. A couple of minutes later, the witness corrected himself, saying that Deronjic, as the civil commissioner, informed ‘those at the top’ without specifying their names

The prosecution contends there is plenty of evidence that Karadzic is responsible for the genocide in the municipalities. Karadzic shared the genocidal intent with other members of the joint criminal enterprise, the prosecutor insisted, corroborating the claim by invoking a putative baker from Prijedor. Karadzic’s legal advisor Peter Robinson compared the OTP’s efforts to prove that genocide was committed in the municipalities with the futile efforts of an untalented student to enroll in Harvard

The former UN Secretary General special envoy’s request to testify in closed session was denied by the judges. Akashi asked them to allow him to testify at Radovan Karadzic’s trial in closed session because he was unhappy with the media coverage of his statements

On 5 February 1995, a shell killed 66 and wounded more than 140 persons in the Markale market in Sarajevo. The judgment sentencing General Stanislav Galic to life in prison established beyond reasonable doubt that the shell was fired from the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps positions. In his evidence in Karadzic’s defense, Galic denied the responsibility arguing there was ‘something abnormal’ in that finding

Several VRS generals have refused to obey Radovan Karadzic’s requests and give evidence in his defense. Ratko Mladic is the latest to rebuff Karadzic, who promptly addressed the Trial Chamber asking it to issue a subpoena to the former Main Staff commander to compel him to testify in Karadzic’s defense

Former Sarajevo-Romanija Corps commander has continued his testimony in Radovan Karadzic’s defense. Galic denied his subordinates were responsible for the attacks on Sarajevo civilians but at one point he backed down and admitted that he would ‘surely have dealt with [some of these incidents] differently’ if he had knew then what he knows now. Claiming that the army under the control of Karadzic and Mladic was not guilty of the crimes, the witness said ‘only 36 per cent’ of all the people killed in Sarajevo had been civilians

The accused Radovan Karadzic insisted there was ‘the imbalance’ between civilian and military authorities, but General Stanislav Galic said that he as a corps commander had to obey both the president who planned combat operations ‘through his directives’ and Ratko Mladic, whose Main Staff implemented the directives

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

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 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’

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

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’

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’

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

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 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 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’

As the cross-examination of Karadzic’s ballistics expert continued, prosecutor Feargal Gaynor confronted her with ‘a far more likely scenario’ for the first Markale incident: a mortar shell fired from the Bosnian Serb army positions hit the market full of people, killing 66 and wounding 140 people. Subotic remained adamant that it was ‘a well-planned act of sabotage’ perpetrated by persons unknown

Radovan Karadzic’s legal advisor clarified in the final part of the evidence of the ballistic expert Zorica Subotic that, according to the defense, ‘it is impossible to establish beyond reasonable doubt which side fired the mortar shelled that hit the Markale market on 28 August 1995’

After the fall of Srebrenica, Dane Katanic, an official in Skelani municipality, visited various sites where Muslims were detained, abused and killed. Dane Katanic nevertheless claims he neither saw or heard of the crimes. According to him, the executions of the people from Srebrenica weren’t discussed at his meetings with the accused Radovan Karadzic

Former chief of intelligence in the Drina Corps Svetozar Kosoric contends that he heard about the executions in Srebrenica some months after the crimes, from the media. Kosoric didn’t deny the prosecutor’s ironic suggestion that he had spent that time in a ‘soap bubble’ where the news about crimes couldn’t reach him. Former RS prime minister Vladimir Lukic began his testimony later today

Former Bosnian Serb prime minister Vladimir Lukic continued his testimony in Radovan Karadzic’s defense. Lukic claimed that the authorities cared for the refugees regardless of their ethnic background. The prosecutor countered the claim, showing war-time statements made by Serb officials who sought to prevent the Croats and Muslims from returning. The officials, the prosecutor noted, wanted to settle Serb refugees into the homes abandoned by Croats and Muslims to create a ‘new demographic picture’

Ballistic expert Mile Poparic contested the prosecution’s allegations that the Bosnian Serb army soldiers were responsible for sniper attacks on Sarajevo civilians. Poparic argued that in many cases the incident sites weren’t visible from the Serb positions as they were behind buildings, shrubbery, or hidden by fog. In some cases the BH Army could see the locations of attacks, Poparic argued

At the beginning of the cross-examination, Radovan Karadzic’s ballistic expert didn’t agree with the claim that the entire Sarajevo was a legitimate military target. According to the witness, only those parts of Sarajevo where troops were deployed and from which fire was opened could be considered as military targets. Nenad Kecmanovic will begin his evidence tomorrow

In his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense Nenad Kecmanovic put the emphasis on the crimes against Serbs, relativizing the suffering of Muslims. In the cross-examination the prosecutor showed the former BH politician an interview from August 1992 in which he stated that so far Muslim civilians ‘have suffered the most’. Kecmanovic replied that he fell ‘victim to propaganda’ when he said that

On the last day of the testimony of defense ballistic expert Mile Poparic the prosecutor contested his findings that the BH Army, not the Bosnian Serb troops, opened fire on the trams in Sarajevo. After he completed his evidence, Karadzic called a former official from the Zvornik municipality who is testifying under the pseudonym KW 137

A former official from Zvornik testified at the trial of the former Republika Srpska president under the pseudonym KW 317. The witness said that Radovan Karadzic was sad and disappointed when he heard the news that Muslims had left Kozluk. In one of their encounters the witness ‘felt’ it was ‘very difficult for Karadzic to handle it when people had to move out of an area’

In his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Ljubomir Borovcanin, who has been convicted by the Tribunal, tried to shift the blame for the massacre of more than 1,000 captives in Kravica on the ‘full-time staff’ of the farm where the crime happened. As the prosecutor put it, Borovcanin blamed the local ‘fruit pickers and farmers’. Borovcanin conceded that he was responsible for the crimes, but he did not go all the way to say he was indeed guilty. In his evidence, he strove to exonerate Karadzic any which way he could

On the second day of his testimony in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Ljubomir Borovcanin, who commanded the police in the Srebrenica operation, first claimed that he had known only about the killing of 20 to 30 Muslim detainees in Kravica. At one point, he admitted that after 20 days he heard ‘rumors’ about ‘another wave of killings’. As alleged by the prosecution, the police subordinated to Borovcanin killed more than 1,000 detainees in Kravica. Borovcanin believes that ‘it doesn’t say anywhere’ that president Karadzic had to be informed about the massacre

In his testimony in Karadzic’s defense Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj said that before the war he supported the policy of the Serbian Democratic Party. Seselj said that his threat to the ‘Muslim fundamentalists’ that they could ‘pack their bags’ and leave Bosnia if they didn’t want to be ‘loyal citizens of Serbia’ was still valid

In a bid to defend Karadzic, Vojislav Seselj attacked ‘the crazy woman’ Biljana Plavsic, ‘Chetnik vojvoda’ Tomislav Nikolic and ‘Chetnik volunteer’ Aleksandar Vucic. He praised the recent Tribunal’s judgments acquitting Stanisic, Simatovic and Perisic. After Seselj completed his evidence, French historian Yves Bataille claimed that there was no massacre in Srebrenica. In mid-July 1995 he met with Karadzic at Pale and Karadzic was so “relaxed” that there was no indication that any crimes may be happening in Srebrenica

Defense witnesses of the former Republika Srpska president tried to refute or at least call into question the Srebrenica massacre arguing that the accused didn’t know about the killings of Muslim men and boys. Finally, the defense witnesses shifted the blame – just in case – on General Mladic. According to the witnesses, Mladic was at the head of a ‘military clique’ that ‘worked independently’ using Karadzic as a ‘cover and screen’

Defense witness Gordan Milinic, former Karadzic’s security advisor turned ‘minister counselor’ and ‘career diplomat’ representing Bosnia and Herzegovina abroad, denies genocide and mocks the Srebrenica victims. Milinic blamed everything on General Mladic’s ‘military junta’

Former chief of the Zvornik police Marinko Vasilic contends that everyone in the town was afraid of the paramilitary units. People ‘whispered’ about their crimes. As a result, he did not learn about them until later, and the delay before the reports reached Karadzic was even longer. The prosecution contested the claim, arguing that everybody knew everything but they did nothing to protect the Muslims in Zvornik

In his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, former Bosnian Serb defense minister Bogdan Subotic claims that the political leadership didn’t wield any control over the ‘stubborn and narrow-minded’ Ratko Mladic and his army. The witness claimed that Karadzic managed to prevent Mladic from capturing Sarajevo but was not able to restrain Mladic in Srebrenica. Srebrenica, nevertheless, is ‘more than 50 percent fraud’, the witness said

General Bogdan Subotic claims that Karadzic was tricked into signing Directive 7 in Mladic’s Main Staff. The document ordered the troops to launch attacks on civilians in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995. Karadzic had already been tricked into decorating the chief of the Prijedor police Simo Drljaca at the recommendation of the military and police officials after the Koricanske Stijene massacre

After Ambassador Gordan Milinic testified last week in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Karadzic today returned the favor. He warned the BH foreign minister and Presidency that they were looking at a seven-year prison sentence or a €100,000 fine for contempt of court if they complied with the demands made by the victims’ associations in their letter of protest. The ambassador denied the genocide and mocked the Srebrenica victims, and the associations contend that he is unworthy of representing Bosnia and Herzegovina

Former RS defense minister Bogdan Subotic claims that during the war, Karadzic and Mladic were at loggerheads and could not have been members of the same joint criminal enterprise. The enterprise in itself is in Subotic’s view a ‘fabrication’. After Subotic completed his evidence, Karadzic called intelligence officer Petar Salapura, who is expected to say whether the supreme commander knew ‘what everybody else knew’ about the mass executions of Srebrenica inhabitants in July 1995

The second highest ranked officer in the intelligence service of the Bosnian Serb army, Petar Salapura, repeated at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that he had not been informed about the Srebrenica massacre. As he said, the officers in the Main Staff ‘kept mum’ about it in front of him, because they had been ‘outraged’ by the number of victims. Indeed, when he did learn about the crime, he thought that such a crime was ‘impossible’ although it turned out to be possible after all

In his evidence at the Karadzic trial, former member of the Serb Crisis Staff in the Zvornik municipality Cedomir Zelenovic said that the local authorities supported Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan as a ‘force that would impose a peaceful solution from above’. As Zelenovic noted, soon after the town was taken by the paramilitary groups, they imposed their ‘reign of terror’ which apparently no one could oppose

Through the testimony of wartime defense minister Milan Ninkovic, the former Republika Srpska president continues his effort to distance himself from the former VRS Main Staff commander Mladic. Ninkovic described the relations between Karadzic and Mladic as ‘intolerable’. However, Ninkovic admitted that in the summer of 1995, the civilian authorities helped the army move the civilians from Srebrenica

General Milenko Karisik readily agreed with the prosecutor that he was indeed a ‘brilliant professional’ and the ‘best of the best’ in the Republika Srpska police. It wasn’t long before Karisik had to explain how it was possible that as a brilliant professional he didn’t know what had happened to the men from Srebrenica. Karisik regularly received reports about the detention of the men from Srebrenica. Colonel Mirko Trivic completed his evidence before Karisik took the stand. Trivic spoke about the consequences of Directive 7, a document bearing the signature of the accused

In a bid to explain how he was able to remain ignorant of the Srebrenica massacre despite his high function as the chief of the Public Security Department, police general Milenko Karisik claimed that in the Srebrenica operation the MUP was a ‘minor element’. He shifted all the blame on the army. Karadzic’s former advisor Jovan Zametica has refused to give evidence in Karadzic’s defense, and he now faces the possibility of a subpoena

Police officer from Bratunac Mirko Peric contends that the execution of 15 prisoners after the fall of Srebrenica at the Jadar river bank never happened because he had never heard about the crime. Additional proof was, as he said, that it was impossible for a ‘blonde woman’ to be driving a truck with the detainees. Also, the witness claimed that the warehouse where the detainees were held prior to the execution simply didn’t exist

Former police inspector Dragomir Andan described his role in the showdown with the Serb paramilitary units in Brcko, Bijeljina and Zvornik. The prosecutor noted that his successful handling of the paramilitaries resulted in Andan’s dismissal. At the same time, the accused Karadzic handed medals to the very men the witness had had to deal with, the prosecutor noted. Andan complained that Milan Lukic had issued death threats against him from the Detention Unit in The Hague

Karadzic’s military expert Dragomir Keserovic doesn’t think that the Republika Srpska authorities systematically expelled non-Serbs from the areas Serbs considered as part of their territory. In Keserovic’s opinion, the process was a result of ‘general ambient conditions’: the fighting and a dire economic situation. According to Keserovic, ‘all those who had a place to go and seek shelter’, left voluntarily

Momcilo Krajisnik failed to use the evidence of the former Crisis Staff president in Bosanski Novi, Radomir Pasic, to convince the judges that the Muslims had left Bosanski Novi voluntarily. His failure did not deter Radovan Karadzic from calling the same witness and trying to prove the same case

As the prosecution contends, even if Karadzic did not learn about the arrest and execution of the Srebrenica inhabitants before 14 July 1995, he definitely knew about it after meeting his friend from Vlasenica, Zvonko Bajagic, late that day in Pale. Bajagic claims that he just asked the ‘honest and God-fearing’ president what would happen to the Muslim refugees. According to Bajagic, Karadzic told him to ‘mind his own business’

As his case continues, Radovan Karadzic will have to answer the charges in Count 1 of the indictment against him, for the genocide in Bratunac, Foca, Kljuc, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Vlasenica and Zvornik, the Tribunal’s Appeal Chamber had decided

Another BH ambassador, Savo Ceklic, has started his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense. He follows in the footsteps of Goran Milinic, who has recently denied the genocide in Srebrenica and openly disparaged its victims. Ceklic portrayed the accused as a peacemaker and defended him against all accusations. In the cross-examination, Ceklic had to defend himself

According to the evidence of Dragan Kapetina, in July 1995 Radovan Karadzic asked ‘what idiots ordered the attack on Srebrenica’. Karadzic was ‘pulling his hair’ and kicking furniture, the witness recounted. The prosecutor showed documents indicating that in actual fact, none else but the president of Republika Srpska had ordered the attack

After the Appeals Chamber reinstated Count 1 charging Karadzic with genocide in municipalities, the accused has filed a motion seeking its severance from the rest of the indictment, arguing that its inclusion would result in the trial dragging out for six to seven months longer than expected

Radovan Karadzic’s defense expert concluded in his report that the citizens of Sarajevo weren’t terrorized but that they were victims of ‘various circumstances’. The civilians from Srebrenica weren’t deported and the ‘allusions’ to mass executions of prisoners never reached the accused. Before the defense expert took the stand, Karadzic called his namesake and cousin. According to the witness, the events in Srebrenica were surrounded by a cloud of ‘mystification’ orchestrated by the Muslims, foreign media and some ‘Serbs from Belgrade’, like Vesna Pesic, Borka Pavicevic and Mira Markovic

The prosecution notes that defense expert Radovan Radinovic, in a bid to justify the attacks of the Bosnian Serb army on Sarajevo, estimated the number of military targets in Sarajevo at 1,500 when he testified at Stanislav Galic’s trial. In his book, he increased the figure to 1,800. In a report he wrote for Karadzic’s defense, the figure went up again, to 2,000. Yesterday, as he testified in court, it went up again, to 2,200. The witness defended his claims saying that his calculations were ‘approximations’

Karadzic’s military expert Radovan Radinovic claims that the plan was for the Muslim prisoners to be taken to the Batkovic camp after Srebrenica was taken. Because soldiers had to be separated from civilians, the prisoners were ‘taken to temporary accommodation’ in facilities in the Zvornik area. From that point on, Radinovic said, the military operation ‘turned into a crime’. The prosecution on the other hand argued that the crime was planned in advance

Former commander of the VRS Birac Brigade Svetozar Andric says that his conscience is clear; the prosecutor tried to show that there was little justification for that. Andric ordered the evacuation of Muslims from Zvornik, the establishment of the Susica prison camp and the torching of the Vlasenica villages. Even as the prisoners from Srebrenica were being executed, Andric was appointed chief of staff in the Drina Corps

Defense expert Dusan Dunjic contends that only 450 or 500 Srebrenica inhabitants could be considered victims of executions in July 1995. According to Dunjic, only those victims who had their hands tied were actually executed. Dunjic ‘refused to accept’ that the bodies with blindfolds had been executed, as the blindfolds could be military bands that fell down on the faces as the bodies decomposed, Dunjic argued

In the cross-examination of Karadzic’s defense expert Dusan Dunjic, the prosecution suggested that the witness ‘skipped over’ all the indicators that run counter to his conclusions and relied only on those corroborating the defense case. Dunjic claimed that most of the Srebrenica Bosniaks exhumed from the mass graves had not been killed in the mass executions

Karadzic’s military expert Dragomir Keserovic contends that the Serb authorities in Sanski Most were ‘forced to forcibly disarm’ non-Serbs. The witness denied that he had participated in the ‘mop-up operation’ in the Cerska valley. The general did admit that he was able to understand fully the Geneva Conventions in 2011, when he analyzed the topic in greater detail

In his evidence at Radovan Karadzic’s trial, Mendeljev Djuric Mane ‘categorically’ denied that he had participated in disarming the Muslims from Srebrenica, separating the men from the rest of the refugees in Potocari and other crimes he was convicted of by the BH State Court. He is currently serving his 30-year sentence

Former police inspector from Sarajevo Cedomir Kljajic gave evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. In 1992, Kljajic was undersecretary for public security in Vrace and was the third person in the RS MUP chain of command. He testified via video link from Canada. In 1995, Kljajic emigrated to Canada purporting to be a lawyer. General Milomir Savcic began his evidence after Kljajic completed his testimony

In his testimony at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, former commander of the VRS 65th Motorized Protection Regiment Milomir Savcic paid homage to the Bosnian Serb military and police officers convicted of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica, calling them his ‘brothers in arms’. The only exception was the former Drina Corps commander Radislav Krstic because he ‘fabricated’ the claim that Savcic’s regiment had participated in the executions of the men from Srebrenica

Radovan Karadzic has called Franc Kos in a bid to contest the allegations in the indictment that the Serb forces executed about 1,200 men at the Branjevo farm on 16 July 1995. Karadzic claims ‘only’ 350 men were executed there. Franc Kos was convicted of the massacre at the Branjevo farm by the BH State Court

The Trial Chamber has rejected Karadzic’s request for severance of Count 1 in the indictment but has granted him additional time to locate and prepare defense witnesses. Karadzic now needs to find witnesses who will contest the prosecution case on genocide in the seven municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Karadzic contends that former chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte might have been in a contempt of court when she disclosed to the US legal team the ‘confidential list’ of witnesses that Slobodan Milosevic wanted to examine in the defense case. However, witnesses’ names were known before Milosevic’s trial began, because Milosevic himself had personally made them public

The former chief of the State Security Service and the Republika Srpska police minister fears he may face prosecution in BH. Radovan Karadzic has asked the Tribunal to issue guarantees that the witness will not be arrested as he travels to The Hague where he is expected to testify in the defense of the former president

The Trial Chamber has denied the request of Karadzic’s defense for a safe conduct order for former Republika Srpska top police official Dragan Kijac, to guarantee that he would not be arrested en route to The Hague. The evidence provided by Karadzic’s defense didn’t convince the Trial Chamber that Kijac could face criminal prosecution in BH. At the same time, the judges granted Karadzic’s motion to add two witnesses to his list: a protected witness and former defense minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Prvoslav Davinic. The latter will testify about the crimes in Sarajevo

Tomislav Kovac has asked the Trial Chamber for guarantees that he won’t be arrested en route to The Hague, where he should soon testify as Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness. He also wants to testify in the presence of a lawyer because of ‘a real possibility that he may incriminate himself’

Karadzic’s war-time advisor John Zametica contends that the accused had very little power in the ‘political universe’ of Republika Srpska. As the supreme commander, Karadzic didn’t have control over the ‘disobedient army’ or over the police and the assembly, Zametica claimed. To further bolster his argument about Karadzic being ‘a weak president’, the witness claimed Karadzic was unable to control ‘his driver, wife and most certainly his daughter’

Karadzic’s former advisor John Zametica admitted that a ‘massacre’ was committed after the fall of Srebrenica. Asked if he meant the execution of thousands of Muslim men and boys Zametica replied, ‘I don’t have a clue’ what happened. The only thing he did know was that ‘something terrible’ had happened there. He also explained why in his view the Tribunal in The Hague was no longer a ‘legal farce’ but a ‘fair court of justice’? Instead of 100 hours he had sought, the Trial Chamber granted Karadzic 25 additional hours to contest the evidence on the genocide in BH municipalities

Former VRS Drina Corps commander Milenko Zivanovic has appeared for the first time as a witness at the Tribunal after the judges issued a subpoena compelling him to testify at the request of Radovan Karadzic

Former Bosnian Serb police minister shifted the blame for the Srebrenica massacre on the army. The witness claimed military security chief Ljubisa Beara was the ‘mastermind’ of the crime and that nobody told Karadzic about it. In one of his previous statements the witness said that the president didn’t have to be informed about the events in Srebrenica because he already ‘knew everything’, the prosecutor noted

Former Bosnian Serb police minister contends that there were ‘elements of schizophrenia’ in the excerpts from Mladic’s diaries that indicate Karadzic played a role in covering up the Srebrenica crimes. Two other witnesses – Mile Dmicic and Miroslav Toholj – denied that the accused had known about the crimes. Dmicic and Toholj called the allegations about the Srebrenica genocide a ‘farce’ and ‘propaganda prepared in advance’

Karadzic’s close friend and associate Miroslav Toholj contends that during his visit to the Vatican in July 1995, ‘before the end of the Srebrenica operation’ he heard stories about Serbs’ mass crimes there. He contends that this is proof of an orchestrated propaganda campaign

In his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Vujadin Popovic confirmed that he knew about the killings of prisoners after the fall of the enclave. Popovic, former security chief in the Drina Corps, said he never informed the RS president about them. The Trial Chamber found Popovic guilty of the genocide in Srebrenica

The first day of Momcilo Krajisnik’s evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense ended up with the two drawing ethnic boundaries in BH on a map. The goal was to convince the Trial Chamber that the Bosnian Serb leadership’s war-time policy focused on implementing the pre-war peace plans. This, the defense argued, was later confirmed by the Dayton agreement

In his application for early release, Momcilo Krajisnik managed to convince the Tribunal’s President that he ‘partially accepted responsibility for the crimes’ and wanted to work to achieve the ‘reconciliation of the three ethnic communities in BH’. In his testimony in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, Krajisnik tried to persuade the judges that the ‘other side’ bears the sole responsibly for the war. No one in the Serb leadership is responsible for the crimes, Krajisnik claimed

The prosecution alleges that the Republika Srpska Assembly was an instrument used to implement the criminal policy designed by the Serb leadership, headed by Karadzic; Karadzic’s defense witness Krajisnik, who was the speaker of the Assembly, said it could serve as a model for the most democratic of countries

In his previous statement to the OTP investigators former president of the Autonomous Region Krajina Assembly Vojislav Kupresanin said that he never could understand why Karadzic and his associates didn’t cut Radislav Brdjanin ‘down to size’. Brdjanin was the radical chief of the Crisis Staff in Krajina. Today, in a bid to defend the accused, Kupresanin said that Karadzic ‘openly’ told Brdjanin his actions were ‘idiotic’

In his statement to the defense, witness Nikola Poplasen described Radovan Karadzic as a ‘patient’ president with no authority. This prompted the prosecutor to remind the witness about his previous testimony in The Hague, when he said Karadzic was ‘aggressive’ and had a ‘decisive authority’. Poplasen replied that he didn’t say Karadzic was ‘aggressive’ but ‘violent’. According to Cvijic’s typology, that is a feature of the Dinaric type of personality

In his testimony in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, former president of the Crisis Staff of the Autonomous Region of Krajina Radoslav Brdjanin said that ‘in light of the latest standards’ applied by the Tribunal in the past two years he in fact didn’t know why he had ever been found guilty. In Brdjanin’s view, only local kingpins and direct perpetrators were responsible for the crimes, not their superiors; this is exactly what some of the Tribunal’s recent judgments seem to imply

On the first day of Momcilo Krajisnik’s cross-examination, the prosecutor reminded the court that Krajisnik had already testified in his own defense at his trial and the judgment concluded he was a witness of ‘very low credibility’. Krajisnik was convicted of various crimes in BH

The prosecutor contested Momcilo Krajisnik’s claim that the goal of the Bosnian Serb leadership was merely to ‘defend their territories’ showing the evidence about their aspirations vis-à-vis the municipalities with a non-Serb majority. As the prosecutor noted, this prompted Slobodan Milosevic to insult Krajisnik and Karadzic roundly in their absence at a meeting in May 1995. Milosevic said that Krajisnik was ‘normal, but stupid’, while Karadzic was ‘abnormal’

The former war-time associates in the Bosnian Serb Presidency claim that they didn’t intend to vanquish their ‘neighbors’. They merely wanted to establish a ‘Serb constituent unit’ as part of BH which would follow the EU model: the border on the Drina river would be ‘permeable’, not ‘erased’

Radovan Karadzic’s defense case continued with the examination of three men from Banja Luka: Novak Kondic, Andjelko Grahovac and Nikola Erceg. Karadzic tried to prove that in the first months of the war the ARK was isolated from Pale in order to distance himself from the crimes committed at that time against the non-Serbs in Bosnian Krajina

As he was cross-examined by the prosecutor, Nikola Erceg claimed that the non-Serbs left Krajina of their own free will. Erceg later admitted that there had been some cases of forcible eviction, but this had never been ‘officially stated’. Apart from Kozarac he didn’t see other Muslim villages that had been razed to the ground, Erceg said. As he told the judges, he was a pacifist, and was not interested in such things. Another member of the ARK Crisis Staff, Milorad Sajic, testified after Erceg completed his evidence

In his second evidence this week, Colonel Milenko Todorovic confirms that the VRS Main Staff first announced and then called off the arrival of 1,000 to 1,200 people captured after the fall of Srebrenica in the Batkovic camp

In his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, former commander of the police in the Omarska prison camp claimed that ‘isolated incidents’ occurred in Omarska. Paramilitaries and other ‘uninvited guests’ were responsible for them, not the prison camp security. Confronted with his previous statement that only two prisoners had died in the prison camp, of ‘natural causes’ Mejakic admitted that he and the other officials were ordered to give only the ‘official version’ to the public

Former chief of the Republika Srpska State Security Service Dragan Kijac claimed that he didn’t know anything about the mass executions in the Srebrenica region in July 1995. In fact, as Kijac explained, he had not known about them until 2000. The prosecutor wondered how that was possible, given that at the time of the Srebrenica operation Kijac was the chief of the State Security Service, given that Kijac’s superiors marked him as an ‘outstanding’ intelligence officer and that in 1996, as the Tribunal investigated the Srebrenica massacre, Kijac served as the RS interior minister

In his evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, the wartime chief of the Defense Secretariat in Sanski Most claimed that many people who were assigned to compulsory work details, digging trenches and clearing minefields in the battlefield were given an opportunity to ‘feel they are useful, that they are contributing to the community’s welfare’. They were thus ‘included into the community, rather than being underrated’, the witness explained

Former deputy commander of the Kljuc Battalion Marko Adamovic claimed at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that non-Serbs in the municipality were treated ‘professionally, humanely and fairly’. Adamovic didn’t deny that the Serb troops killed about 100 persons on 1 June 1992 in the villages of Prhovo and Velagici

Mikan Davidovic from Sanski Most claimed at Karadzic’s trial that ‘no-one ever’ forced the non-Serbs to leave the municipality, although he lived in a village 20 km away from the town of Sanski Most and he admitted he didn’t know what was going on in other parts of the municipality. Former member of the Kljuc Crisis Staff Rajko Kalabic claimed that Karadzic didn’t participate in forming the municipal authorities, only to confirm in the cross-examination that it was not entirely the case

Karadzic’s defense witness Mile Dobrijevic claims that no-one was expelled from Sanski Most. Muslims and Croats left voluntarily, and those who stayed enjoyed the same rights and freedoms as Serbs, Dobrijevic explained. The prosecutor noted that Croat and Muslim villages were attacked and civilians arrested and taken to prisons and detention camps, where they were interrogated by the very inspector Mile. As the prosecutor noted, there are witnesses who claim he too beat prisoners

The former Republika Srpska president has sent a request to the US authorities for the information on possible surveillance of his conversations with his legal advisor Peter Robinson. Karadzic hopes that it could help his in his motion to suspend or at least stay the proceedings against him

Milos Bojinovic from Banja Luka testified at Radovan Karadzic’s trial. He claimed that the Agency for the Movement of People and Exchange of Property did ‘humanitarian work’. According to Bojinovic, this was not part of an organized effort to get the non-Serbs to move out as the prosecution has alleged

Former BH Army soldier has testified in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, revealing a number of astonishing details. As he told the court, he has been offering to testify about them to the prosecutors in Sarajevo and The Hague for years but they apparently didn’t believe him. The witness is convinced that the Sarajevo authorities and the Association of the Mothers of Srebrenica have prevented him from revealing the truth

In the cross-examination of Radovan Karadzic’s defense witness, the prosecutor remarked that he was ‘an eyewitness to all the conspiracy theories about Srebrenica that were published in the press’. The witness confirmed it. He denied the allegations in a report which appears to show that the people working for Karadzic’s defense had presented him with prefabricated answers. The witness allegedly ‘spoke the answers into a Dictaphone’, in exchange for a new identity and his return to a ‘third country’ from which he had been deported in order to stand trial in Republika Srpska

Karadzic’s defense witness Vladimir Matovic contends that in July 1995 ‘a friend of Serbia in NATO’ shared with him the ‘sensational information’: the US and German military officers were planning to stage a massacre of Muslim civilians in order to use it as a pretext for NATO strikes against the VRS. The witness’s written statement was not admitted into evidence because it was too confused and he was ordered to appear in court to be examined viva voce

Former president of the Srbac municipality Milos Milincic described Karadzic as a peaceful man whose speeches at the inauguration assembly of the SDS were a ‘textbook lesson in democracy’. Milincic was at a loss to comprehend how he could confirm eight years ago, at the Krajisnik trial, that Vojislav Kupresanin had publicly admitted that the reduction of the number of Muslims in the municipalities Serbs claimed as theirs had been accomplished by mass expulsion

The Trial Chamber has granted Radovan Karadzic’s motion and will issue a binding order to Ratko Mladic compelling him to testify in Karadzic’s defense. If Mladic refuses to appear in court and answer the questions of the parties, he could face contempt of court charges

Radovan Karadzic has called Bosnian Serb military officers Vidoje Blagojevic and Zdravko Tolimir in a bid to convince the Trial Chamber that Karadzic didn’t know about the crimes they were convicted for

Since he plans to comply with all ‘orders and instructions of the Trial Chamber’, in Radovan Karadzic’s view it is not necessary to extend his stand-by counsel’s term of office. The prosecution argues in favor of retaining the stand-by counsel because it would guarantee the smooth continuation of the trial until its end and would act as a safeguard against any obstructions of the accused

In a bid to corroborate the allegations that the US government monitored privileged communications with his legal advisor Peter Robinson, Radovan Karadzic wants the Ecuadoran embassy to allow him to meet with the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

Ljubisa Beara, former security chief in the VRS Main Staff, sentenced to life for the Srebrenica genocide, appeared at Karadzic’s trial to testify under a binding order. At one point, he invoked his right not to reply to questions that may incriminate him. However, the judges also used their right to prevail upon the witness to answer the controversial questions, in closed session

In his evidence at Karadzic’s trial, Milomir Stakic expressed his regret for the things done to the non-Serbs in Prijedor. ‘It is a fact that the crimes were committed, a fact that they were expelled and forced to leave Prijedor’, admitted Stakic. However, Stakic denied his role in the crimes arguing that he ‘lacked political skills’, was a ‘pacifist’ and ‘powerless’

In his evidence in Karadzic’s defense, former security officer in the 1st Krajina Corps Radomir Radinkovic claimed that the highest standards of accommodation were in force in the Manjaca prison camp. This prompted the prosecution to show evidence that the prisoners slept on concrete floors where cows used to be kept. The prisoners were starved and abused in various ways, the prosecution argued

Although he knew about the crimes against Muslims and Croats in the Omarska and Keraterm prison camps, former president of the Prijedor SDS Simo Miskovic says that as a ‘regular citizen’ he couldn’t demand that the crimes be investigated. The prosecutor then confronted him with a document showing that he had indeed demanded from the municipal authorities to conduct a number of investigations, but only into war profiteering, not crimes against the non-Serb neighbors

Radovan Karadzic’s bid to stay proceedings against him by invoking a purported agreement with Richard Holbrooke has failed, and now he wants the judges to accept the agreement as ‘a mitigating circumstance’ in sentencing

Former Serbia and Montenegro defense minister Prvoslav Davinic claims that during his tenure in the UN in New York an unnamed Greek colleague ‘told him as an aside’ that Serbs had been blamed for the second attack on the Markale market in Sarajevo for ‘political reasons’. As strong evidence in support of his claim, Davinic noted that Radovan Karadzic had ‘categorically’ told him in Pale in 1996 that Mladic ‘assured’ him that his soldiers were innocent

Vinko Nikolic, Karadzic’s first witness in 2014, claims that Muslims from Sanski Most decided ‘voluntarily’ to leave, and that ‘competent Serb bodies had to help them do so’. The prosecution alleges that, as the result of their ‘help’, only 3,350 Muslims – out of a pre-war population of 28,000 Muslims – remained in Sanski Most by February 1995

Mile Petrovic, Karadzic’s defense witness and former deputy commander of the Bratunac Brigade military police platoon, claims that in July 1995 he didn’t kill six detained Muslims to avenge his dead brother

Radovan Karadzic continues building his defense case through the evidence of various persons convicted by the Tribunal. Now he has called Miroslav Kvocka, former guard from Omarska. Kvocka claimed that killings and beatings were not a rule but an exception in the prison camp, or at least, that was the case in the first 20 days he worked as a guard there. According to Kvocka, his job in the prison camp ended abruptly after he tried to save three Muslim cousins from detention

Former investigator in Keraterm Dragan Radetic claimed at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that prisoners were not verbally and physically abused in the prison camp, at least at the beginning. He served in the camp for about 15 days as an investigator: in that period, Radetic didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. He heard about the crimes, including the Room 3 massacre, on the grapevine in Prijedor

In his evidence in Karadzic’s defense, Zdravko Torbica, a traffic policeman, defended himself against the allegations that he had helped the deportation of non-Serb civilians from Prijedor, escorting the transports taking the dead bodies to the Tomasica mine and beating prisoners in the police station. Member of the municipal Crisis Staff Bosko Mandic explained the role of that body in the detention of non-Serbs from Prijedor in the prison camps and their expulsion

Former chief of security in the VRS Main Staff Ljubisa Beara blamed the Republika Srpska police for the genocide in Srebrenica. The accused Radovan Karadzic was the supreme commander of both the police and the Bosnian Serb army

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Miladin Nedic said, ‘Muslims are brothers to the Serbs by blood and sworn enemies by faith’. Nedic is the former member of the SDS Main Board

Former official in the local Secretariat for National Defense Cedo Sipovac claimed that he didn’t know anything about the crimes against Muslims and Croats in the Prijedor municipality. Sipovac tried to convince the Trial Chamber that he had not known until today that his colleague Becir Medunjanin had been tortured and killed in Omarska in 1992 and that Medunjanin’s wife had been found dead after being taken out of the prison camp

Branko Davidovic, former commander of a battalion in the VRS 6th Krajina Brigade, said that he begged Muslims ‘as brothers’ to lay down their arms but they refused to do it. In May 1992 The VRS 6th Krajina Brigade razed the Muslim village of Hrustovo near Sanski Most to the ground

According to Jefto Jankovic, investigating judge from Banja Luka, the massacre at Koricanske Stijene was committed by criminals and ‘infiltrated elements’ acting on the orders of foreign intelligence services to paint Serbs as murderers

Despite the Trial Chamber’s binding order, Ratko Mladic refused to give evidence in Radovan Karadzic’s defense, deserting the front line defended by the former RS president against the Tribunal’s prosecutors. Both Karadzic and Mladic are on trial for almost identical charges: double genocide and other crimes committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Karadzic called Drasko Vujic as his defense witness. Vujic’s unit was in charge of securing the village of Puharska near Prijedor. He claimed that although the soldiers patrolled the area he never noticed that the local mosque and the Catholic church had been blown up. He did admit that blowing up those religious building necessitated a lot of explosives and extensive preparations

In 1992, Karadzic’s protected defense witness worked in Omarska. In the three months of his tenure there, the witness was in the camp on a daily basis and during that time, he claimed, he learned of ‘only one incident’ when a prisoner was abused, and of the death of 18 inmates. Karadzic’s witness shifted the blame on the late chief of the Prijedor police, Simo Drljaca, adding that there were ‘not enough’ guards and inspectors

Dusko Jaksic, director of the Institute of Economics in Banja Luka, claimed at Radovan Karadzic’s trial that the Autonomous Region of Krajina was established purely for economic reasons. In Jaksic’s view, Karadzic was ‘too tolerant’ in comparison with the mood that prevailed among the Serbs in Krajina following the secession of BH from Yugoslavia

Jovan Kevac from Kljuc claimed at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that ‘individuals that ran amok’ killed about 100 men in the village of Biljani on 10 July 1992. Kevac rejected the prosecutor’s suggestion that he had been the commander of the operation in Biljani. In his statement to Karadzic’s defense the witness conveniently forgot to mention that

A witness that participated in the incident in the village of Hambarine testified at Radovan Karadzic’s trial and spoke about the incident. Karadzic’s defense alleges the incident triggered the conflict in Prijedor. The prosecution alleges that the Hambarine incident was used as a pretext to launch a planned campaign of violence aimed at the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs from that area

In his evidence in Karadzic’s defense, former Bosnian Serb police minister Mico Stanisic claimed that in wartime, when conditions ‘went beyond the worst’, the ‘detection rate’ in crimes against non-Serbs in 1992 was ‘satisfactory’. It would have been even better if his police force had been a member of Interpol, because then it would have had access to the statements given by the witnesses to the BH police

In a bid to prove that Radovan Karadzic and his defense witness Mico Stanisic were close during the war, the prosecution called evidence of their friendship and cooperation, which lasted from 1991 until 1994, when the police minister dared to launch an investigation into the president’s financial affairs. He was soon dismissed from his post

The prosecution challenged the claim made by Mico Stanisic, former Bosnian Serb police minister, that his ministry had to fight the paramilitary groups. Documents showed by the prosecution indicate that the police in fact handed out arms to criminals and deployed those criminals in combat. Karadzic, an avowed anti-communist, quoted Josip Broz in his defense

In his evidence at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Mihajlo Orlovic renounced all his texts and reports published or broadcast on the radio during the war. As Orlovic explained, it was a ‘time of propaganda’ and editors rewrote his texts. Even today Orlovic still doesn’t believe that mass crimes were perpetrated against the non-Serb population in Sanski Most. According to Orlovic, they were ‘individual incidents’ of sick persons and drunkards

A protected defense witness testified at Karadzic’s trial and accused paramilitary groups for the crimes in Keraterm and Omarska. When the witness was shown evidence that the Banja Luka special police were involved in the unlawful treatment of prisoners, the witness said the problems occurred when ‘conscienceless individuals’ would mingle with the police from time to time. It was hard to establish who the culprits were, the witness explained

Mitar Rasevic, former guards commander in the Penal and Correctional Facility (KP Dom) in Foca testified in Karadzic's defense, insisting he had been "a consummate professional" all his life. He claimed he had never seen any evidence of violence or blood on the detainees' bodies and the walls in the KP Dom. He didn't notice the disappearance of over 200 detainees, and blamed the military for all the bad things that happened to the prisoners

Implying that he is in an unequal position vis-a-vis the prosecution, former Republika Srpska president has asked for a two-week break in his trial, to begin on 25 February. He would use the time to prepare his own evidence

Former Republika Srpska Prime Minister Gojko Klickovic quoted from Njegos's verses as he defended Radovan Karadzic. The prosecutor responded by saying that Njegos's Mountain Wreath calls for the extermination of Christians who had converted to the Islamic faith. She also noted that in a speech in July 1992, the accused said, "every verse Njegos wrote reflects the situation we face today". Karadzic eventually joined in the court hearing turned poetry debate

Slobodan Jurisic claimed at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that Kljuc was a role model for the entire region because of the efforts of the Serb authorities there to protect people of all nationalities. Kljuc is one of seven municipalities where, the indictment alleges, genocide was committed during the war

In his evidence in Karadzic’s defense, former municipal official from Pale Jovan Sarac claimed that his authorities guaranteed the freedom of movement to all the inhabitants. In the cross-examination Sarac explained why only Muslims exercised that right

Former member of a police unit nicknamed Pearls claims that Radovan Karadzic was a victim of conspiracy orchestrated by Alija Izetbegovic and his associates. They provoked the Serbs to attack civilians and thus got the international community involved in the war. During the war, the Pearls provided security to the members of the BH Presidency. The prosecutor showed a number of exhibits indicating that the allegation was ‘pure fiction’

Vladimir Glamocic, former president of the Knezevo Executive Board, claimed at Karadzic’s trial that the authorities hadn’t covered up the crime at Koricanske Stijene. Everybody was revolted and unanimous that the perpetrators should be punished. The prosecutor argued that the authorities’ attitude towards the crime was reflected in the fact that the mass graves containing the victims’ remains were discovered in 2009, after one of the culprits confessed

Having failed in his attempt to use the purported agreement with Richard Holbrooke to terminate the proceedings against him for double genocide and other crimes in BH, now Karadzic wants the judges to accept the agreement as a mitigating circumstance in sentencing

In the course of Dusan Jankovic’s evidence, Radovan Karadzic suggested that, after the attack on Prijedor, the Green Berets buried their dead fighters in the Tomasica mine. Jankovic, former commander of the Prijedor Public Security Station, was sentenced in Sarajevo to 21 years for the crime at Koricanske Stijene

Former member of the SOS unit from Sanski Most Dusan Mudrinic Medeni claims that the Muslims from that municipality first demanded to be ‘sheltered’ in prison facilities and then left the town ‘of their own free will’. Before they left, the Muslims ‘gifted’ their business premises and cars to their Serb ‘friends’, including the witness himself

Radovan Karadzic decided not to give evidence in the proceedings against him at the Tribunal. Momcilo Gruban, former guard shift commander in the Omarska prison camp near Prijedor, completed his evidence. According to Gruban, he should never have been sentenced to seven years in prison, but commended for assisting the prisoners in Omarska

Arguing that the preparation of the final brief was a big endeavor for a small defense team, Karadzic wants the judges to give him a year to draft it: he needs to go through 48,000 pages of transcripts, 11,000 exhibits, again as many briefs and motions, 2,300 adjudicated facts and the testimony of about 600 witnesses

Radovan Karadzic’s motion to tender into evidence witnesses’ statements and other evidence on his alleged ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with US diplomat Richard Holbrooke has been granted. Holbrooke purportedly promised Karadzic that the indictment against him in The Hague would be withdrawn in exchange for his retirement from political life. The evidence will be used only for the purpose of the sentencing

The prosecution has asked the judges to give it six months longer than initially planned for its final brief at Radovan Karadzic's trial. Furthermore, the prosecution will need to file a longer brief, as Karadzic’s trial is the most complex case so far at the Tribunal, comprising no less than four joint criminal enterprises. The Croatian official who was supposed to testify today failed to appear

The prosecution has sought permission to rebut Karadzic’s defense case through the testimony of 14 new witnesses, and to re-open its case to call five witnesses about the mass grave in Tomasica near Prijedor, discovered last year

‘There is no reason to believe that America was in contempt of court’, Judge Moloto ruled, denying Radovan Karadzic’s motion. Karadzic had petitioned the court to appoint a prosecutor amicus curiae to investigate if the US state officials had obstructed the administration of justice by purportedly monitoring the privileged telephone conversations between the accused and their legal representatives and of the Tribunal’s judges

Former Republika Srpska president has urged the Trial Chamber to reject the prosecution’s motion to re-open its case in order to call evidence on the mass grave in the Tomasica mine near Prijedor. Karadzic has not opposed the prosecution’s motion seeking leave to rebut some of the defense’s evidence on the crimes in five BH municipalities

The Trial Chamber has concluded that to call evidence on the Tomasica mass grave near Prijedor at this late stage of the trial ‘is not in the interest of justice’. The new evidence could cause the trial to drag on, and its evidentiary value at this time ‘is speculative at best’. The trial of Ratko Mladic thus remains the last opportunity for the Tomasica evidence to be heard at the Tribunal

On Thursday, the Trial Chamber denied the prosecution’s motion to re-open its case in order to present the evidence about the exhumation of the Tomasica mass grave. Today, the judges denied the prosecution motion seeking leave to rebut parts of Karadzic’s defense case. The closing arguments have been scheduled for 29 September 2014

The Trial Chamber’s decision denying the prosecution's motion for rebuttal of Karadzic's defense case was made public. The prosecution had sought leave to call 14 new witnesses in rebuttal. Although the judges agree that the contested evidence ‘raises significant issues’, and that the accused hadn’t indicated he would be calling it in his pre-trial brief, they ruled that the prosecution could ‘reasonably have foreseen’ that this evidence would be called. At the beginning of the trial, Karadzic clearly indicated he would contest all of the adjudicated facts

In his latest motion, Radovan Karadzic argues that issuing separate sentencing judgment would contribute to a fair trial and make work easier for the judges. However, the former Republika Srpska president claims there will be no need for the sentencing judgment because he ‘expects to be acquitted’, as he has put it in the first sentence of his motion

After repeated failures on the part of the prosecution to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence to him, Radovan Karadzic requests the court to investigate whether members of the Office of the prosecutor should be charged with contempt of court

The Trial Chamber has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s motion for a separate sentencing judgment if he were to be found guilty. The Trial Chamber has noted that it ‘finds no reason to depart from the settled practice on sentencing’ in force since July 1998.

The President of the Tribunal and of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has granted Radovan Karadzic’ request to appoint a judge to consider if there are grounds for an investigation against the prosecution for failure to disclose potentially exculpatory documents to the former Bosnian Serb president’s defense on time

The former Bosnian Serb president contends that the four judges in his Trial Chamber haven’t been legally re-elected and that their term of office expired yesterday. Although he is aware that his move might lead to a delay in the delivery of his trial judgment, Karadzic filed the motion to disqualify the judges

After his attempt to disqualify all the judges in his Trial Chamber failed, Karadzic has filed a new motion for a re-trial based on ‘the cumulative effect’ of the prosecution’s failure to disclose the evidence on time

The Trial Chamber has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s demand for a new trial, noting that the separate and cumulative effects of the prosecution’s failure to disclose evidence on time have not harmed the accused to an extent that would require a re-trial

Judge Vagn Joensen has accepted the Trial Chamber’s finding that all the delays in the disclosure of evidence to Karadzic’s defense to date are not due to any malicious intent on the part of the prosecution. The accused’s motion to appoint a prosecutor amicus curiae to investigate and launch contempt of court proceedings against the prosecution team has thus been denied

Former Bosnian Serb president submitted a motion seeking to re-open the defense case to tender into evidence the cables sent by US general James Jones in February 1993. In the cables, Muslims are accused of attacking UNPROFOR members in Sarajevo

In the conclusion of the prosecution’s final brief, published on Friday, the prosecution has asked the Trial Chamber to sentence Radovan Karadzic to life in prison. According to the prosecution, this is the only adequate punishment if the Trial Chamber finds the accused guilty of a ‘substantial portion of the crimes’ listed in any of the three main components of the indictment

In his closing argument, prosecutor Alan Tieger called Radovan Karadzic a liar and a mobster, the driving force behind the ethnic cleansing of parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina the Serbs had claimed as their own. The crimes ‘were not aimed against individuals but against members of an undesirable community’ with a view to forcibly changing the demographic composition of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ‘Genocide is the right word for those crimes’, the prosecutor noted

Having highlighted Radovan Karadzic’s responsibility for the artillery and sniper terror campaign in Sarajevo and the Srebrenica genocide, prosecutor Alan Tieger concluded the closing argument by demanding a life sentence for the former Republika Srpska president

At the beginning of his closing arguments, Radovan Karadzic first mercilessly attacked the whole Tribunal, then focused his attack specifically on the Tribunal’s Office of the Prosecutor. Karadzic denied the crimes and his responsibility for them, portraying himself as a ‘true friend to Muslims’. Karadzic also denied that he was a ‘liar and a mobster’ claiming that he left ‘only good deeds’ as his legacy

On the second day of the defense closing arguments, Karadzic’s legal advisor Peter Robinson told the judges to acquit the accused of genocide in the municipalities and in Srebrenica. Robinson, however, did admit that ‘heinous crimes’ had been committed there. Karadzic, for his part, denied there was a campaign of artillery and sniper terror against the Sarajevo citizens arguing that ‘Sarajevo wasn't as much as scratched’. Finally, Karadzic said he was sure he would be acquitted

In the rebuttal of the defense’s closing arguments, the prosecutor noted that unlike his legal advisor Peter Robinson, Karadzic ‘did provide support to his generals’. Karadzic ‘cannot accept the reality of what happened to the Srebrenica men and boys because that reality charges him personally’, the prosecutor stressed. Karadzic is a man ‘desperately trying to deny the facts that incriminate him’, facts that ‘show beyond any reasonable doubt his responsibility on all counts in the indictment’

In his final address to the Trial Chamber, the accused Radovan Karadzic says he daren't imagine what the war in BH would have been like if there hadn't been so many humanists in the Serb leadership: writers, medical doctors, lawyers and university teachers, adding that his ‘conscience is clear’ and that he expected to be acquitted. Judge Kwon closed the trial, announcing that the judgment would be rendered ‘in due course’

Radovan Karadzic’s appeal against the Trial Chamber’s decision has been rejected. The Trial Chamber has confirmed in its decision the Registry’s finding that the former Republika Srpska president should pay 146,501 euros for his defense

In Radovan Karadzic’s opinion, the detainees' health has deteriorated because they are served frozen food from plastic dishes warmed in microwave ovens. Another reason might be potentially hazardous materials used in the construction of the Detention Unit. Karadzic complains about excessive use of paracetamol, a ‘dangerous drug’. He also asks the judges to allow him to ‘be active professionally as a medical doctor and writer’ and to continue the work of his predecessor Vuk Karadzic

The former Republika Srpska president has filed a motion demanding that a status conference be scheduled. He wants to talk about his health, conditions in the detention, disclosure of exculpatory material and the sentencing date. Karadzic has suggested that the status conference be held in first nine days of June 2015

The accused has asked the Trial Chamber to schedule a status conference to discuss his health which has deteriorated recently. Karadzic wants to talk about the general conditions in the Detention Unit and how they affect the increasingly poor health of the detainees as well as the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence on time

According to the medical documents, unsealed at Radovan Karadzic’s request, on 27 August 2015 he underwent surgery to remove his inflamed gallbladder. The patient is feeling well after surgery, the Tribunal has stated

The Trial Chamber has granted Radovan Karadzic's motion for a status conference. It has been scheduled for 29 September 2015. The parties will discuss his health and conditions in the detention unit

Former Republika Srpska president fears that he could be the next victim of the ‘catastrophic turn for the worse’ among the Tribunal’s ‘fragile and old’ detainees. Karadzic has called for an investigation by the UN and the World Health Organization to establish why there are so many malignancies and other illnesses in such a small population

In a letter to Ban Ki Moon Radovan Karadzic has called for an enquiry into the health of the Tribunal’s detainees. Karadzic also wants the work of the Tribunal and the OTP to be investigated. If the Tribunal’s President and the chief prosecutor are entitled to report regularly twice a year to the United Nations, the accused should have the same right, Karadzic had noted as the self-appointed representative of the detainees

Former Republika Srpska president on trial for double genocide and four joint criminal enterprises in BH has asked for a status conference. Karadzic wants to tell the judges about his recovery following gall bladder surgery, his blood sugar level and his inability to stick to his diet without a fridge in the Detention Unit

The judgment in the case against Radovan Karadzic will be rendered on 24 March 2016. At the end of the trial which lasted almost five years, the prosecution asked for a life sentence for the accused, while Karadzic asked the judges to acquit him on all counts in the indictment

On Thursday, after a five-year trial and eighteen months of deliberation, the Trial Chamber will deliver its verdict in the case against former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic. The hearing has drawn capacity crowds at the Tribunal

The former Republika Srpska president was found guilty of 10 out of a total of 11 counts in the indictment and was sentenced to 40 years prison. The Trial Chamber was not convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the crimes in the seven municipalities had been committed with the intent to commit genocide. The judges took Karadzic’s withdrawal from public functions in July 1996, the regret he had expressed and his good behavior in the detention unit as mitigating circumstances

On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 there will be a status conference in the case against former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic. The hearing will focus on Karadzic’s mental and physical health following his sentencing on 24 March 2016, when he was sentenced to 40 years in prison

At an extraordinary status conference, Radovan Karadzic told the judges he was ‘astonished’ when he received the 40-year prison sentence, as he had already packed his bags to go home. The accused complained about the conditions in the Detention Unit, demanding an inquiry into the rash of malignant diseases among the inmates. Since his health has been steadily ‘deteriorating’ over the years, Karadzic wants the judges to set him free pending the appellate judgment

Former Republika Srpska president has filed a motion for provisional release pending the appellate judgment in his case. Karadzic has offered ‘personal guarantees’ that he will return from Republika Srpska to the Detention Unit in Scheveningen when ordered to do so by the Tribunal

The President of the Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals has responded to the complaints raised by the former Republika Srpska president at a status conference on 6 April 2016. Karadzic complained about the conditions in the detention unit and about ‘frequent malignant diseases’ among the inmates in the UN Detention Unit. Karadzic also complained about the slow and outdated computer he had at his disposal in his cell

Responding to Karadzic’s motion for provisional release pending the appellate judgment, the prosecution noted that there were no ‘special circumstances’ to justify the request. Also, the prosecution stressed, Karadzic is a flight risk. Such a decision would undermine the confidence the victims, witnesses and public had in the ability of international tribunal to ensure the administration of justice

Radovan Karadzic complains that he doesn’t have enough time or resources to prepare a meaningful appeal, and asks the judges to grant him a three-month extension of the deadline for his notice of appeal against the judgment. In March 2016, the Trial Chamber sentenced Karadzic to 40 years in prison

The Appeals Chamber of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s motion for provisional release pending the delivery of the appellate judgment in his case. Karadzic has subsequently filed a motion seeking permission to attend the commemoration ceremony for his recently deceased brother, but it has likewise been denied

Goran Petronijevic, a member of Radovan Karadzic’s defense team, has been invited to clarify by 11 July 2016 the circumstances under which he had disclosed to the media the contents of a confidential submission. After that, it will be decided if there are grounds to prosecute him for contempt of court before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals

In his appeal against the trial judgment, the former Republika Srpska president complains that he was not given a fair trial. Karadzic also strongly condemns the entire concept of international justice, calling on the world leaders to re-consider it

In four ground of appeal the prosecution highlights the errors of law and fact in the Trial Chamber’s judgment. The prosecution wants the appellate judges to convict Radovan Karadzic of genocide in seven municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to sentence him to life

Following a spate of complaints from Radovan Karadzic about the 'toxic environment' and 'a high malignancy rate' in the UN Detention Unit, the Tribunal's Registry turned to the Medical Centre of the Erasmus University to investigate the claims. Its expert team investigated the matter over a period of several months and concluded there is no causal relationship between the conditions in the detention unit and the malignant diseases of some of the detainees

The Appeals Chamber of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals sets schedule for the hearing of oral arguments filed by the Prosecution and the Defence against the sentence of 40 years in prison for ex president of RS Radovan Karadzic found guilty for genocide and other crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Appeals Chamber in the case of former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadžić today heard the arguments of the Defence to reverse the Trial Chamber's judgement and to order an acquittal or a retrial

Using Prijedor as an example, the Prosecution argued that ethnic cleansing in seven munipicalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 reached the proportions of genocide and that former Republika Srpska leader should be found guilty on the first count of the indictment and sentenced to life in prison

The Appeals Chamber labelled the 40-year sentence Karadzic received at his trial ‘unreasonable and plainly unjust’ and sentenced him to life in prison. The remaining grounds for appeal filed by the prosecution and the accused were rejected. Karadzic could be set free in the summer of 2038