The Appeal Chamber rejected Zdravko Tolimir’s appeal and confirmed the pre-trial judge’s decision rejecting the demand of the accused to receive documents in the Cyrillic rather than Roman script

Pre-trial judge Kimberly Prost formally warns Zdravko Tolimir he will be assigned defense counsel if he doesn’t notify the Registry he is ready to accept the court material in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and in Latin script by Friday

Former Mladic’s assistant Zdravko Tolimir maintains he was ‘kidnapped’ in Belgrade and not arrested in Bosnia Herzegovina. Complaining that he is denied the right to take the special tea that lowers his blood pressure, Tolimir burst into tears at the status conference

The pre-trial conference in the case of Zdravko Tolimir, charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa, has been scheduled for 16 December 2009. The prosecution will deliver its opening statement on 17 and 18 December 2009. First prosecution witnesses will give evidence in January 2010. Tolimir is still not getting enough sleep

Continuing the opening statement at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir, the prosecution indicated it would prove that ‘Tolimir’s men’ directed all the activities related to the detention, execution and burial of thousands of men and boys from Srebrenica in July 1995. ‘Tolimir’s men’ included members of the 10th Commando Detachment who executed more than 1,700 Bosniaks at the Branjevo Military Farm and in the Culture Hall in Pilica

The prosecution opened its case at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir with the evidence of a Bosniak who survived the execution in Orahovac. As alleged in the indictment, about 1,000 captured men and boys were executed there. Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in July 1995

Two more witnesses confirmed at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir what they said about their survival of the execution of some 1,000 Bosniaks, captured after the fall of Srebrenica, at the execution site in Orahovac near Zvornik on 14 July 1995

The accused Zdravko Tolimir today cross-examined Mevludin Oric, one of the three survivors from the execution site in Orahovac, where more than a thousand Bosniak prisoners were executed on 14 July, as alleged in the indictment. Tolimir put it to Oric that he may have been in a column of men from Srebrenica who reached Nezuk on 16 July, and asked for his photograph in order to conduct an expert analysis comparing it to the footage of the column of soldiers and civilians moving into the free territory

Using maps and photos, including aerial shots, French investigator Jean Rene Ruez, former head of the Srebrenica investigation team, reconstructed the events in the Srebrenica events from 11 to 17 July 1995 at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir

Former head of the OTP Srebrenica investigation team Jean Rene Ruez completed his examination-in chief at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. The former chief of security in the VRS Main Staff is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

The testimony of a survivor from the Petkovci dam was admitted into evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. As alleged in the indictment, about 1,000 Bosniaks captured after the fall of Srebrenica were executed there on 14 and 15 July 1995

The OTP investigator described at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir the perambulations of the VRS Drina Corps archives in 1995 from Vlasenica, to Bijeljina and Sokolac in BH and from there to Mali Zvornik and Gornji Milanovac in Serbia. In 2004, the archives was finally found in a building used by the Army of Serbia and Montenegro

In his cross-examination of Jean-Rene Ruez, who headed the OTP’s Srebrenica investigation team, the accused Zdravko Tolimir challenged the figures for the Srebrenica victims. Tolimir invoked a purported statement by Mirsad Tokaca, director of the Investigations and Documentation Center in Sarajevo, that the lists of people killed in Srebrenica contain the names of 500 persons who are still alive. Ruez suggested to Tolimir to call Tokaca as his defense witness

The accused Zdravko Tolimir showed clips from feature film Resolution 819 to contradict the documentary footage from Srebrenica and aerial photos tendered into evidence by the prosecution, as his cross-examination of Jean-Rene Ruez, head of the Srebrenica investigation team, continued. Tolimir claims that the ‘fabricated scenes’ shown there do not reflect ‘the real scenes’ from Srebrenica

According to the latest OTP report, a total of 6,557 victims were identified after the investigation in Srebrenica and Zepa that lasted for years. OTP investigator Dusan Janc gave evidence about this effort at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir

A resident of a village near Srebrenica gives evidence at the trial of General Tolimir. On 13 July 1995, the witness survived the massacre in a warehouse in the village of Kravica. About 1,200 captured Bosniaks were killed with automatic weapons and hand grenades there. General Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa

Prosecution witness, former UNPROFOR officer who served in BH, denied the claim that the blue helmets ‘tolerated the BH Army attacks’ on Serb positions and responded to VRS actions with ‘ultimatums and punishment’

At the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir, Dutch colonel Robert Franken described how he exchanged ultimatums with the commander of the VRS Main Staff on 10 July 1995. Mladic demanded that the Dutch Battalion, the BH Army and civilians leave Srebrenica. Franken responded by demanding that the VRS withdraw; if they refused, air strikes would follow

In the cross-examination of Colonel Franken, former deputy commander of the Dutch Battalion in Srebrenica, Tolimir accused the UNPROFOR of siding with the BH Army in July 1995

Completing his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, former UNPROFOR chief of staff in BH, General Nicolai testified he was never told that the BH Army restricted the movement of UN troops in Srebrenica in the ‘Bandera Triangle’ inside the enclave in the summer of 1995

At the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, the prosecution continued its case with the evidence on the events in Zepa. Zepa is the other enclave nominally protected by the UN to be captured by the VRS in July 1995, after Srebrenica

Former president of the Zepa executive board and a member of its war presidency recounts how at the negotiations General Ratko Mladic demanded that the entire population be evacuated from the enclave, threatening the Bosniak representatives that they ‘will sign their death warrant’ if they declined

At the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, the president of the Zepa Executive Board continues his evidence. In July 1995, he negotiated with General Mladic and his security assistant the evacuation of the enclave nominally protected by the UN

In an effort to prove the authenticity and reliability of intercepted communications between various RS military and police officers recorded in 1995 by the BH Army and police intelligence services, the prosecution called Stephanie Frease to give evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. Frease is former OTP investigator; in 1995, she was involved in a project to gather and analyze materials related to the intercepted conversations

In the cross-examination of former OTP investigator, the accused Zdravko Tolimir put it to her that the recordings and transcripts of the intercepted conversations between various Bosnian Serb military and police officers during the Srebrenica operation were in fact fabricated or tampered with in the ‘labs of the BH State Security Service’. The material was then surrendered to the Tribunal, he argues

General Zdravko Tolimir continues his cross-examination of Kenyan major Kingori, in an effort to support his version of events in Srebrenica in the summer of 1995: according to him, Muslims from Srebrenica ‘requested on their own’ to leave the enclave and the ‘UN forces helped them’

In his evidence at the trial of VRS general Zdravko Tolimir, British pathologist John Clark noted that the victims in Srebrenica were mostly men who died of gunshot wounds to the back. Clark worked on the postmortems of Srebrenica victims

Former municipal official from Bratunac testified at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir. On 12 July 1995, the witness attended the meeting between Mladic and the representatives of the Muslim people gathered in Potocari. Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa

At the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, OTP investigator continues her evidence on the compilation of video recordings from Srebrenica, put together to make a reconstruction of sorts of the events following the arrival of Mladic’s troops in the enclave nominally protected by the UN in July 1995

Australian pathologist Christopher Lawrence is testifying at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir. Lawrence headed the OTP forensic pathology team that conducted post mortems on the remains of 883 persons exhumed from mass graves in the Srebrenica area

Continuing the cross-examination of former UN Dutch Battalion soldier Colonel Egbers, the accused general Zdravko Tolimir put it to the witness that in July 1995, the VRS detained Dutch peace-keepers for their own security

The prosecution continues its case at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. OTP investigator Blaszczyk testified about the investigation of the video recordings made by Belgrade journalist Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac in the Srebrenica area in July 1995

The OTP investigators were able to identify not only some of the perpetrators but also a number of the victims on the video footage of the events in Srebrenica in July 1995 shown as part of the compilation Srebrenica – court video. The video was shown at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir

Former civilian official in the Zvornik municipality testifies at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir. The witness talked about a meeting where a VRS officer who introduced himself as Colonel Beara demanded that the municipal authorities ‘assist’ in the effort to take care of a large number of prisoners ‘that should be got rid of’

In his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, former treasurer in the VRS Zvornik Brigade said that the Muslims captured after the fall of Srebrenica were executed ‘in public’: ‘everybody knew’ about them

An OTP investigator is testifying at the trial of Mladic’s assistant commander for security Zdravko Tolimir about the authenticity of the diaries kept by the former VRS Main Staff commander and the way in which they were seized and handed to the prosecution

Yesterday, the trial of Zdravko Tolimir proceeded in closed session. Today, the court heard testimony of former VRS officer Djoko Razdoljac, who has been subpoenaed to testify for the prosecution

At the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir, the cameraman of the notorious Scorpions unit gave evidence today. In July 1995, the witness recorded the execution of six boys and youths in Trnovo. The commander of the Scorpions ordered him to record it; copies of the videos were later given to all the participants as ‘souvenirs’. General Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa

In mid-July 1995, wounded Muslim prisoners from the Srebrenica area were transferred from the health center in Milici to the Zvornik hospital. The question is: were those prisoners taken the next day to Tuzla for medical treatment or were they brought to the VRS Zvornik Brigade military infirmary in Karakaj? The prosecution alleges that the wounded prisoners were executed in Karakaj soon after their transfer

The area of Lazeta near Orahovac, the site of the execution and burial of about 1,000 Muslims, captured after Mladic’s troops entered Srebrenica in July 1995, has been excavated four times, said Fredi Peccerelli at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. Peccerelli is a forensic anthropologist and was in charge of the last excavation in the summer of 2000

In the cross-examination of Lazar Ristic, former deputy commander in the 4th Battalion, Zvornik Brigade, the accused Zdravko Tolimir tried to challenge the prosecution case that there was a parallel chain of command in the VRS units participating in the Srebrenica operation in the summer of 1995; it consisted of the security officers, from battalion level up to the VRS Main Staff

In the cross-examination of a survivor of the execution in Branjevo, General Zdravko Tolimir, Mladic’s former assistant for security in the VRS Main Staff, tried to defend his former commander

Mile Simanic signed a combat report stating that ‘about 1,000 to 1,500 enemy soldiers and civilians were arrested killed’ in July 1995 in the Konjevic polje area. At the trial of Zdravko Tolimir Simanic recognized his signature but couldn’t remember signing the document

According to former worker in the UN civilian mission in BH Edward Joseph, when Mladic’s troops entered the enclave in July 1995 the people were not evacuated from Zepa, but forcibly expelled. Joseph is testifying for the prosecution at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir

In his evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, former UNPROFOR civil affairs officer Edward Joseph contends that the removal of the Muslim population from Zepa was the objective of the VRS operation launched in July 1995, and not its accidental consequence

The attempt by the civilians and BH Army soldiers to break through to the liberated territory from Srebrenica was in fact a military offensive launched by the 28th Division on the VRS defenses, Zdravko Tolimir contends. Former Mladic’s assistant for security in the VRS Main Staff is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

In the examination of Nedjeljko Prstojevic, former president of the Ilidza Crisis Staff, the prosecutor put it to the witness that he has always been a stalwart ‘admirer and supporter’ of Radovan Karadzic. Prstojevic denied this, saying he was ‘a man who obeys law’. After a mild brain hemorrhage in 1996, ‘I sometimes think one thing and say something else’, the witness admitted. Prstojevic nevertheless blamed the discrepancies between what he had said at the Krajisnik trial in 2005 and his evidence now to bad translations and ‘incomplete’ transcripts of intercepted conversations

In his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, former British officer in UNPROFOR likened the scenes he saw in Zepa in July 1995 with the Holocaust

The trial of former Mladic’s assistant for security in the VRS Main Staff proceeded for the most part in closed session today with the evidence of a police officer from Bijeljina. In July 1995, the witness saved the life of a 16-year old youth when he took him out from a group of Bosniak captives who were later executed by the Bosnian Serb soldiers

British general Rupert Smith began his evidence at the trial of General Zdravko Tolimir, former Mladic’s assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff. General Smith was the last UNPROFOR commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In July 1995, the warring factions and UNPROFOR agreed to evacuate the people of Zepa, but only the Bosnian Serbs are blamed for their exodus, claims General Zdravko Tolimir. Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

The accused Zdravko Tolimir continues his cross-examination of General Rupert Smith. Using a series of documents about the fall of Zepa in July 1995, Tolimir tried to corroborate his argument that the BH authorities stalled the negotiations about the surrender of the enclave and obstructed the evacuation of the people although the ‘official negotiators of the Muslim side’ signed an agreement to that effect

On the third day of the cross-examination of former UNPROFOR commander in BH General Rupert Smith, the accused General Zdravko Tolimir sought to corroborate yet again his argument that the UN troops in BH were partial. According to Tolimir, the UN forces in BH ‘sided with one of the parties in the conflict’: they supported and assisted the BH Army in its attacks against the VRS

In the final part of his cross-examination of former UNPROFOR commander Rupert Smith, General Tolimir again accused the UN troops of ‘violating their mandate’, ‘siding with Bosniaks and Croats’ and ‘using force’ against the Serb troops when they entered the enclave which was nominally under the UN protection in July 1995. Tolimir is on trial for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

Bosnian Serb army general Ljubomir Obradovic testifies at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa. Obradovic described the structure and function of the VRS Main Staff and the role of the accused general. At the time, Tolimir was Mladic’s assistant commander for security and intelligence

General Zdravko Tolimir ‘proposed the use’ of chemical weapons in the attack on Zepa in July 1995 ‘probably to deceive and intimidate the BH Army soldiers and make them surrender and leave the enclave’, Ljubomir Obradovic said in his evidence at the trial of Mladic’s former assistant for security. Obradovic served as a staff officer in the VRS Main Staff during the war

Chemical agents are not the same as chemical weapons, Mladic’s former assistant for security general Zdravko Tolimir noted as he started cross-examining prosecution witness Ljubomir Obradovic, former staff officer in the VRS Main Staff

A terrible crime happened in Srebrenica and it cannot be justified in any way, Momir Nikolic said at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. The former chief of security and intelligence in the VRS Bratunac Brigade, who pleaded guilty to the Srebrenica crimes in 2003, is currently serving his 20-year sentence

Momir Nikolic, former chief of security and intelligence in the VRS Bratunac Brigade, continues his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, former chief of security in the VRS Main Staff. Nikolic described how the Bosnian Serb forces prepared the operation aimed at the ‘elimination’ of the enclave by putting pressure on UNPROFOR and the people in Srebrenica

One day after the fall of Srebrenica, it was clear that all Muslim men captured after Mladic’s troops entered the enclave would be executed, former security officer in the VRS Bratunac Brigade said on the third day of his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir

The accused general Zdravko Tolimir dedicated the first day of his cross-examination of Momir Nikolic to the defense of the position and role of security and intelligence officers in the VRS units. The prosecution has ‘blamed’ Nikolic and other security officers ‘for many things they are not responsible for’, Tolimir contends

Momir Nikolic continues his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. When the accused suggested in the cross-examination that the people of Srebrenica ‘were free to choose whether they wanted to stay or to leave the zone’, Nikolic said that the people of Srebrenica were transferred by force. The zone was under the nominal protection of the UN but fell to the Bosnian Serb troops

Zoran Carkic, former security officer in the VRS Rogatica Brigade, confirmed today in his cross-examination every claim put to him by the accused general Zdravko Tolimir, Mladic’s assistant for security in the VRS Main Staff who is on trial for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa

Immediately after the fall of Srebrenica, the then chief of security in the Eastern Bosnia Corps received an order from the Main Staff to prepare the accommodation for more than 1,000 Muslim prisoners who would arrive in the Batkovic prison camp. As the prisoners never showed up, the chief of security called the Main Staff. General Tolimir told the security chief to stop preparing the accommodation because this ‘idea had been abandoned’. It seems that the men who never reached the Batkovic prison camp ended up at some of the Srebrenica execution sites

In August 1995, former commander of the BH Army Zepa Brigade was transferred to the military detention facility of the Eastern Bosnia Corps. In the night of 5 September 1995, an officer from the intelligence and security sector in the VRS Main Staff took Palic from the detention unit. Colonel Milenko Todorovic, who was the security chief in the Eastern Bosnia Corps, confirmed this as he continued his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir

‘Avdo was an irredeemable optimist and he believed that one day people would be ashamed of what they did in war, that they would feel remorse, he believed in justice’, said Esma Palic, whose husband commanded the defense of Zepa, as she testified at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, charged with genocide and other crimes in Zepa and Srebrenica in July 1995. According to Esma Palic, her husband described Tolimir as a ‘trained officer’ who could be trusted

As she completed her testimony at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, on charges of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa, witness Esma Palic accused Mladic’s former assistant for security that in July 1995, he led her husband into a trap. Her husband Avdo Palic was the commander of the BH Army Zepa Brigade

Colonel Petar Salapura, former chief of the Intelligence Administration in the VRS Main Staff, described a conversation with the accused Zdravko Tolimir in the spring of 1995. Tolimir agreed with Salapura’s assessment that any attacks on the eastern enclaves would be ‘counterproductive’ and would prompt a strong response of the international community. Tolimir added that those enclaves were ‘ripe for the picking’ anyway

In January 1996, Petar Salapura, who is now testifying as a prosecution witness at the trial of general Zdravko Tolimir, asked the Republika Srpska MUP to issue ID documents ‘with Serb names or new Serb names and surnames if the holders already have Serb names’ to eight soldiers of the 10th Commando Detachment. Some of them were foreign nationals or were indicted by the Tribunal in The Hague

In the cross-examination of Petar Salapura, former intelligence officer in the VRS Main Staff, General Zdravko Tolimir tried to contest the adjudicated facts related to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the independence of its former republics, BH in particular. Salapura was Tolimir’s immediate subordinate in July 1995

Former security officer in the VRS Main Staff testifies for the prosecution at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. On 17 July 1995, the witness reported to the accused general about the progress of the ‘blockade and clean-up’ operations in the enclave after it fell to the Bosnian Serb forces

General Zdravko Tolimir continued the cross-examination of the former chief of the military police in the VRS Main Staff. The international forces favored one side in the conflict and could no longer claim they were part of a peace-keeping mission, since it was relaying intelligence about the VRS to the BH Army, tolerated the illegal arming in the protected areas and launched air strikes against the Bosnian Serb positions, Tolimir argued. Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

Zdravko Tolimir, on trial for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa, cross-examined Zoran Petrovic Pirocanac, Belgrade journalist who holds a doctorate in ‘present history’ from a Parisian university. Petrovic Pirocanac expounded in great detail his geopolitical views and theories about ‘Islamist’ conspiracies corroborating them with second-hand ‘facts’

The name of Zoran Malinic, former commander of the military police in the 65th Protection Regiment of the VRS Main Staff, was mentioned at all the trials for crimes in Srebrenica before the Tribunal. At the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, Malinic appeared for the first time as a prosecution witness. Malinic testified under his name but with image distortion as a protective measure. The presiding judge warned the witness that he had the right not to answer any incriminating questions

Prosecution military expert began his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. As the prosecutor indicated, the witness would talk in particular about the position and the role of officers in the VRS Main Staff. General Tolimir, charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa, was Mladic’s assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff

American military analyst Richard Butler contends that Zdravko Tolimir as the Assistant Commander for Intelligence and Security in the VRS was responsible for the fate of the prisoners of war executed after the fall of Srebrenica. At first, the accused was unaware of the plan to execute the POWs, but, as Butler contends, Tolimir had to be informed at one point: nobody would risk the failure of the plan because of his ignorance thereof

Isolating the enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa was a legitimate military target of the VRS. However, the March 1995 Directive 7 of the Supreme Command included an illegitimate objective: to force the civilians from the enclaves to leave, prosecution witness Richard Butler said in his evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir

In the final part of his cross-examination of US military analyst Richard Butler, the accused Zdravko Tolimir denied his role in the ‘joint criminal enterprise to kill men of military age’ captured after the fall of Srebrenica. The accused general claims he didn’t know about the executions when they were carried out, from 13 to 17 July 1995; he remained unaware of them for some time afterwards

Prosecution expert witness completed his marathon evidence at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, concluding that Mladic’s assistant for security knew or could have known about the crimes he is charged with

A prosecution witness gives evidence under the pseudonym PW14 at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir. He has talked about the events in July 1995 after the Bosnian Serb troops overran the Srebrenica enclave; he was 16 years old at the time and lived in Srebrenica with his parents, brother and sister

Last weekend, the Serbian authorities arrested former VRS intelligence officer Dragomir Pecanac and handed him over to the Tribunal. The Tribunal has charged Pecanac with contempt of court for failing to comply with the subpoena compelling him to give evidence. Pecanac postponed his plea, saying he was not capable of testifying

In October 2011, Dragomir Pecanac refused to testify at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir and was convicted of contempt of court. Today, Pecanac appeared once again in court before the Tribunal. This time, Pecanac was ready to give evidence, but in closed session in order not to incriminate himself and to be protected from ‘the abuse of the Sarajevo media’

The judges today granted the prosecutor’s request to adjourn the trial of Zdravko Tolimir until Monday in order to have additional time to review the documents handed over by the witness Dragomir Pecanac because they are of ‘great significance for Tolimir’s case and other cases’. The entry on 14 July 1994 states that ‘Blue knows what they did to the Turks’. The prosecutor alleges that Blue was code name of Momcilo Perisic, chief of the VJ General Staff

The examination-in chief of Dragomir Pecanac continued with the prosecutor trying to establish where Pecanac was and what he saw on 11, 12 and 13 July 1995 in Srebrenica. Judging from the few answers that he gave in open session, Pecanac saw little. His only concern at the time was ‘General Mladic’s security’

In the year and a half of its case, the prosecution called 126 witnesses. The accused Zdravko Tolimir will respond to the prosecution evidence by calling only four witnesses. The examination-in chief of Tolimir’s witnesses will take 36 hours, or 9 court days. As his first witness, Tolimir called a former officer who served in the Department for Civil Affairs and Cooperation with International Organizations in the VRS Main Staff, in a bid to prove ‘that UNPROFOR was biased and spied for the Muslim and Croatian forces’

Through his second witness, Zdravko Tolimir is trying to prove that as assistant commander in the VRS Main Staff he was not authorized to issue orders. Tolimir contends that he cannot be responsible for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in July 1995, charges he is facing at his trial

According to Ratko Skrbic’s calculations, after the fall of the enclave in July 1995, there was a ‘deficit of 368 persons who had gone missing, or had been killed or executed’. This makes the prosecution’s allegation about more than 7,000 victims of the Srebrenica genocide untenable, Skrbic contends. Ratko Skrbic has been called to testify as an expert witness by General Zdravko Tolimir. He wrote a book entitled Srebrenica – Genocide against Truth

‘It is difficult to determine how many soldiers were killed in combat and how many of them were executed after the fall of Srebrenica’, Zdravko Tolimir’s expert witness has claimed. According to Tolimir’s witness, about 3,000 soldiers of the BH Army 28th Division were killed in combat as they fought their way to Tuzla

In the cross-examination, the prosecutor confronted Zdravko Tolimir’s defense expert witness, former VRS colonel Ratko Skrbic, with a series of documents and other evidence which corroborated the prosecution’s claim that about 7,000 men of military age from the enclave were killed in July 1995 after the fall of Srebrenica

The prosecution wants the judges to dismiss the expert report written by Ratko Skrbic, Zdravko Tolimir’s defense expert. Prosecutor Vanderpuye described it as ‘worthless, unreliable and an insult to the victims’. The judges will deliver their decision next week

Zdravko Tolimir, former Mladic’s assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff, rested his case after the evidence of his fourth and final witness. Tolimir is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995. The closing arguments will be delivered in August 2012

Defense expert Ratko Skrbic and his report on movement of the Srebrenica population lack ‘professional foundations’, the Trial Chamber decided at the trial of Mladic’s former assistant in the VRS Main Staff Zdravko Tolimir, charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa. The decision was taken by a majority vote

Tolimir embraced the goals of the VRS and decided to pledge his alliance to Mladic instead of his God and the law, one of the prosecutors said in the closing argument at the trial of the former assistant commander for intelligence and security in the VRS Main Staff. Tolimir is on trial for genocide and other crimes in 1995 in Srebrenica and Zepa

Mladic’s former assistant for intelligence and security in the VRS Main Staff denies in his closing argument any responsibility for crimes that were committed, as alleged in the indictment, in the two enclaves in Eastern Bosnia in July 1995. The enclaves were under the nominal protection of the UN

The trial of Zdravko Tolimir, Mladic’s former assistant for security in the VRS Main Staff, ended today with the closing arguments by the parties. The judgment on the indictment charging Tolimir with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa may be expected by the end of the year

Less than three months after the completion of the trial, the Trial Chamber has scheduled the judgment for former Mladic’s assistant in the VRS Main Staff who is charged with genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

Zdravko Tolimir, Mladic’s former assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff, was found guilty of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995 and was sentenced to life. This is the Tribunal’s fourth sentence for genocide in Srebrenica and the first sentence for the same crime in Zepa

Judge Theodor Meron stressed the importance of public proceedings before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ordering Zdravko Tolimir to disclose a public version of his confidential appellate brief. Judge Meron also ordered the prosecution to make public its response

At the regular status conference in the appellate proceedings Tolimir had no complaints about his health or the conditions in the detention unit. The appellate hearing has been slated for 12 November 2014

The appellate hearing in the case against Mladic's former assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff mostly focused on the issue of whether the VRS operations in Zepa could be qualified as acts of genocide if considered separately from Srebrenica, and whether the Trial Chamber erred when it concluded that the three leading public figures in Zepa were killed with the specific intent to destroy a part of the Muslim community

The date of the final judgment in the case against the former chief of the VRS security and intelligence was not set at the regular status conference in Zdravko Tolimir's appellate proceedings. The Trial Chamber found Zdravko Tolimir guilty of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in July 1995 and sentenced him to life in prison

Judge Theodor Meron’s Appeals Chamber will hand down the final judgment in the case against Mladic’s former assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff, Tolimir on Wednesday, 8 April 2015. Tolimir was sentenced by the Trial Chamber to life in prison for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

The Appeals Chamber has confirmed the genocide conviction and life imprisonment for Zdravko Tolimir, Mladic’s former assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff. Although some grounds of appeal put forth by the accused have been granted and some convictions have been quashed, this has not merited any reduction in the sentence, the judges decide

Zdravko Tolimir, Mladic’s former assistant for security and intelligence in the VRS Main Staff, has passed away in the UN Detention Unit in Scheveningen. Tolimir was awaiting transfer to a country where he would serve his sentence. Tolimir’s life sentence for his involvement in genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995 was confirmed ten months ago

An enquiry by the Dutch authorities has shown that Zdravko Tolimir, former VRS general, died of natural causes three days ago in the UN Detention Unit. Tolimir was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995

Former deputy commander of the VRS Main Staff in charge of intelligence and security died of a heart attack, in spite of a ‘prompt, efficient and coordinated’ intervention of the personnel in the UN Detention Unit. The health care standard enjoyed by the Tribunal’s detainees is equal to that of Dutch citizens