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Kravica: Two trials completed

19 June 2008  Thirty months after the indictment was confirmed, two trials for genocide in Srebrenica have now been completed.

Two and a half years since the confirmation of the indictment, the evidence presentation at the trial of Petar Mitrovic and Miladin Stevanovic has been completed.

The Prosecution charges the two men with having participated in the genocide after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. The Trial Chamber, sitting at both trials, announced that the closing arguments "might be presented on July 9."

Mitrovic and Stevanovic, former members of the Second Special Police Squad from Sekovici, were originally charged under the same indictment as nine other policemen and members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, but, in May this year, the Court divided the case intro three separate cases.

Although there are now three separate cases, the Prosecution proposed to present its closing arguments at a joint hearing, to be attended by all 11 indictees.

At the last hearing, held on June 19, Krsto Stojkic, former criminal inspector, who was an investigator in the Defence team, was examined. The Defence made a proposal to include Nenad Vasic's statement as evidence, claiming that he did not want to come to Sarajevo.

Krsto Stojic, who examined Vasic in 2005, said that he refused to appear at the hearing "as he is afraid of being arrested".

The Trial Chamber rejected the proposal to include his statement as evidence.

The public was not informed about the content of Vasic's statement.

The presenting of evidence at the trial of Petar Mitrovic was completed in early June, after the Defence cross-examined protected Prosecution witness S4 at a closed session.