THE HAGUE, 25.7.2010
Starting from July 26 until August 16, 2010 - due to the ICTY summer recess - SENSE will not produce news service or the weekly TV program “The Tribunal”. Reports will continue only in case of breaking news such as arrest or surrender of remaining fugitives and their initial appearance at the ICTY

THE HAGUE, 23.7.2010
The defense teams of Jadranko Prlic, Milivoj Petkovic and Bruno Stojic have so far opposed the prosecution’s motion seeking leave to tender into evidence parts of Mladic’s ‘war diaries’. Prlic and Praljak argue that the prosecution has ‘engaged in a public relations campaign’. They request the Chamber to lift the confidentiality of the diaries and to grant permission to the parties to disclose and discuss with the press the content of Mladic's diaries

THE HAGUE, 23.7.2010
Deputy Chief Prosecutor Norman Farrell noted in his statement to our agency that the judgment delivered by the Appeals Chamber in the Haradinaj et al. case was extremely “important’ as the judges recognized there was ‘an unprecedented atmosphere of widespread and serious intimidation of witnesses’ during the trial

THE HAGUE, 22.7.2010
At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the prosecution called witness Ekrem Suljevic. An order issued by the VRS, tendered into evidence by the prosecution through this witness, states that ‘the highest-yield target with as many human casualties as possible’ should be selected for modified air bombs known as ‘sows’

THE HAGUE, 22.7.2010
The prosecution has filed a motion seeking leave to tender into evidence parts of Mladic’s diaries in which he claims that the SRS volunteers took part in the destruction of Mostar and the ethnic cleansing of Eastern Bosnia

THE HAGUE, 21.7.2010
In the cross-examination of General Abdel Razek, Radovan Karadzic argued that Serbs in Sarajevo were ‘ethnic hostages’ of the Bosnian authorities. In the re-examination, the prosecutor asked the witness what were alleged ‘ethnic hostages’ in fact afraid of. ‘Continuous shelling, snipers and shortages…’, the witness replied. The next prosecution witness is Ekrem Suljevic from Sarajevo

THE HAGUE, 21.7.2010
The Appeals Chamber has reversed the acquittal of the three KLA commanders of the charges of crimes against civilians in the prison camp Jablanica in 1998, ordering a re-trial on six counts in the indictment. The prosecution’s request to reverse Balaj’s acquittal on the counts of murder, rape and torture was rejected. Brahimaj’s demand to either quash his conviction or give him a milder sentence was also rejected. An order was issued to bring the accused back to the detention unit

THE HAGUE, 20.7.2010
In the opinion of Egyptian general Hussein Ali Abdel-Razek, the Bosnian Serb political and military leaderships had identical goals, and worked hand in hand, but the politicians, including Karadzic, were in charge at the meetings when the shelling of Sarajevo and the expulsion of Muslims were discussed. With the help of Lord Owen Karadzic tried to show that there were no ‘good and bad guys’ in BH

THE HAGUE, 20.7.2010
In its latest letter, the EU Council has stated that Gotovina’s defense has been given more than 10 reports produced in August 1995 by the European monitoring mission’s Knin Regional Center, but there are no clear indications that the Knin observers did actually put together a logbook at all

THE HAGUE, 19.7.2010
Radovan Karadzic asked Dr. Milan Mandilovic ‘who launched the aggression’ against Sarajevo and its citizens. ‘If someone holds you under siege for 44 months and doesn’t let you leave, then one need not be too clever to figure it out…’, Dr. Mandilovic replied. When Karadzic asked him what he would say if he knew that the ‘Muslim’ and not Serb forces were responsible for the suffering of the Sarajevo citizens, the witness replied ‘I wouldn’t believe you’