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Week Ahead: Mitar Rasevic's Defence Starts

30 November 2007  

Next week, the Defence team representing Mitar Rasevic will start to present its evidence by examining the indictee.

In the first week of December, 33 indictees are due to appear before the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of BiH, while indictee Mitar Rasevic will testify as a defence witness at his own trial.

The Prosecution of BiH considers Mitar Rasevic and Savo Todovic responsible for the maltreatment of civilians detained in the Correctional Facility in Foca from 1992 to 1994. Rasevic will be examined on Tuesday, December 4. His defence team will start its evidence presentation process by examining him. The defence attorney has announced that he will need three days for the presentation of evidence.

On Monday, December 3 the prosecution will continue presenting evidence against Milorad Trbic, charged with genocide in Srebrenica. The indictment alleges that Trbic was assistant commander for security with Zvornik Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army (VRS) and that he participated in the execution of more than 7,000 men in July 1995.

On the same day, the defence teams continue presenting evidence at the trials of Zdravko Mihaljevic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) who is charged with crimes committed in Tulice village near Kiseljak, and Zeljko Lelek, a policeman from Visegrad who is charged with having committed rape and murder of civilians in that municipality.

The trial of Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic is due to continue on Monday. The prosecution considers them to be responsible for the murder of a group of civilians in Borkovac village near Bratunac in 1992.

Former HVO members Marko Radic, Dragan Sunjic, Damir Brekalo and Mirko Vracevic, who are all charged with the murder, beating and rape of Bosniaks detained in Vojno detention camp, are due to appear before the court on December 3 and 5, when the prosecution will continue presenting evidence.

On December 4 and 6, the prosecution is due to continue presenting its evidence against Zdravko Bozic, Mladen Blagojevic, Zeljko Zaric and Zoran Zivanovic , former members of the VRS military police forces who are charged with having committed crimes against humanity in Srebrenica.

According to the official timetable of the Court of BiH, the trial of Pasko Ljubicic is due to continue on Wednesday and Friday. The former commander of the Fourth HVO Military Police Battalion is charged with having ordered and participated in attacks on civilians in Busovaca, Vitez and the surrounding villages in 1993.

Defence witnesses called by the legal team of Milos Stupar, one of the 11 persons charged with genocide in Srebrenica, will testify on December 5 and 6 next week.

A discussion on the start of the defence evidence presentation process at the trial of Zeljko Mejakic, Momcilo Gruban, Dusan Fustar and Dusko Knezevic will take place at the next hearing scheduled on December 6. The indictees are charged with having committed crimes in detention camps in Prijedor in 1992.

The trial of brothers Ranko and Rajko Vukovic continues on Friday, December 7. The brothers are charged with having committed the murder of two persons in Podkolun village near Foca when they were members of the former Serbian Republic of BiH Army.

At that hearing, Ranko Vukovic's defence attorney will cross-examine protected witness A, who has accused the indictee of having raped her.