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Week ahead: Vlasenica crimes trial due to end

23 November 2009 Evidence presentation at the trial of Predrag Bastah and Goran Viskovic, who are charged with crimes committed in the Vlasenica area, is due to be completed next week.

At a hearing scheduled for November 26 the Defence of Goran Viskovic is due to present the last piece of material evidence. After that the Trial Chamber will set the dates for presentation of closing arguments.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina charges Viskovic, a former military policeman with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, and Predrag Bastah, a former reserve policeman with the Public Safety Station in Vlasenica, with a number of crimes committed against Bosniak civilians from Vlasenica in 1992.

On the same day the Trial Chamber, sitting in the case of Ratko Bundalo, Nedjo Zeljaja and Djordjislav Askraba, will re-examine a protected witness, who previously testified for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Zeljaja's Defence, speaking about the indictees' activities in the Kalinovik area during 1992.

The State Prosecution charges the three former Republika Srpska policemen and soldiers with crimes against humanity committed against Bosniaks from Kalinovik from April 1992 to March 1993.

New Prosecution witnesses are due to appear at the trial of Stojan Perkovic, which will continue on Monday, November 23 and Tuesday, November 24. The indictment alleges that Perkovic participated, as former Commander of a squad with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, in Ladjevine village, Rogatica Municipality, in crimes committed in that municipality in 1992.

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