Siege of Srebrenica

A former Bosnian Serb policeman told a Belgrade court that he saw a truck loaded with dead bodies in the village of Kravice, where Bosniaks from Srebrenica were massacred in 1995.

Former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic was sentenced to five years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

A Bosnian Serb ex-soldier told a Belgrade court how he helped to conceal the bodies of several hundred Bosniaks from Srebrenica after a night-long mass execution in a hangar in the village of Kravica in 1995.

Naser Oric’s defence in his war crimes trial questioned the credibility of a witness who said he saw the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica open fire on a Serb prisoner in 1992.

The first witness at the retrial of the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, who is accused of killing three Serb captives in 1992, said he saw the defendant shoot a prisoner.

The former Bosnian Army commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, is being retried for war crimes over the killing of three Serb captives in 1992 after being acquitted in his original trial.

In closing arguments at the Srebrenica genocide retrial of former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic, the prosecution demanded a long sentence while the defendant insisted he was innocent.

Bosnian state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic said he received death threats from a witness who testified in the war crimes case against the former Bosniak commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric.

Former soldier Rade Garic was charged with persecuting Bosniaks by committing murders, torture, rape and other crimes in the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995.

The US State Department accused the Bosnian Serb authorities of attempting to deny history by annulling a report on the 1995 Srebrenica massacres which accepted that Serb forces killed thousands of Bosniaks and breached humanitarian law.