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Week ahead: Defence Closing Arguments at Kalinovik Crimes Trial

26 November 2009  Next week the Defence of Ratko Bundalo, Nedjo Zeljaja and Djordjislav Askraba are due to present their closing arguments at the trial for crimes against humanity committed against Bosniaks from Kalinovik.

The Defence of Bundalo, former Commander of the Kalinovik Tactical Group, is due to present its closing arguments at the hearing scheduled for Monday, November 30, while the Defence of Zeljaja, former Commander of the Public Safety Station in Kalinovik, will do the same on December 1. The Defence of indictee Askraba, former Commander of guards in "Barutni magacin" ("Gunpowder Depot") detention camp, will present its closing arguments on Thursday, December 3.

In its closing arguments, the State Prosecution called for long prison sentences for Bundalo and Zeljaja and "a sentence as prescribed by the law" in the case of Askraba.

On Monday, November 30 two trials for genocide committed in Srebrenica in July 1995 are due to continue with the examination, via video link, of a former Dutch UNPROFOR soldier.

Major Robert Franken Alexandar will first testify at the trial of Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, former members of the Headquarters of the First Zvornik Brigade with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, who are charged with the murder of about 1,200 Bosniaks at Branjevo military farm. He will then testify at the trial of Radomir Vukovic and Zoran Tomic, former members of the Second Special Police Squad, who are charged with the murder of Bosniaks in Kravica Agricultural Cooperative.

The hearings at the trial of Vukovic and Tomic are due to take place on Thursday, December 3 and Friday, December 4.

Another former member of the Second Special Police Squad from Sekovici, who is charged with genocide committed in Srebrenica, is due to appear before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A new Prosecution witness will appear at the trial of Zeljko Ivanovic, known as Arkan, at the hearing on December 3. Ivanovic is charged with participation in the shooting of more than 1,000 Bosniaks in Kravica Agricultural Cooperative.

On November 30 and December 2 the State Prosecution is due to continue presenting evidence at the trial of Vinko Kondic, Bosko Lukic and Marko Adamovic, former members of the Crisis Committee in Kljuc, who are charged with crimes against humanity and with organizing a group of people and abetting them to commit genocide and war crimes in Kljuc during 1991 and 1992.

On Wednesday, December 2 a hearing will be held at which first-instance verdict appeals will be presented in the case of Zrinko Pincic. By the first-instance verdict, pronounced in November 2008, Pincic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, was sentenced to nine years in prison for having committed rape in Donje selo, in Konjic Municipality.

On the same day new Prosecution witnesses are due to appear at the trial of Sasa Zecevic, Radoslav Knezevic, Petar Civcic, Branko Topola and Marinko Ljepoja, who are charged with participation in the murder of about 200 men at Koricanske stijene on August 21, 1992.

The indictment charges Civcic in his capacity as Commander of the First Interventions Squad with the Public Safety Station in Prijedor, Zecevic, Knezevic and Ljepoja, as members of the First Interventions Squad, and Topola as a guard in Trnopolje detention camp, near Prijedor.

Ljubo Tomic and Krsto Josic, who are charged, by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as members of the former Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Army, with having killed three Bosniak civilians in Kozluk, in Zvornik Municipality, on June 26, 1992, are due to appear before the Court on Wednesday, December 2.

On Friday, December 4 a status conference will be held at which the Trial Chamber will announce whether it will hear evidence at the trial of Suljo Karajic, former Commander of the Second Military Police Squad with the 505th Motorized Cavalry Brigade of the Fifth Corps with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who is charged with crimes committed in the Bihac District during 1994 and 1995.