THE HAGUE, 7.2.2010
At three of the four trials scheduled to continue next week, the generals in the dock will continue with their defense cases: Momcilo Perisic, Vlastimir Djordjevic and Milivoj Petkovic. A new witness will take the stand at the trial of the former Serbian State Security Service chief, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic

THE HAGUE, 5.2.2010
Not satisfied with the last EU report on the steps taken to locate the EC monitors’ logbooks from Knin, the Trial Chamber issued an ‘urgent’ invitation to the Secretary-General of the EU Council to provide a more detailed report about the search of the European archives within 14 days. Gotovina’s defense has sought the logbooks of the European monitors from Knin for some time

THE HAGUE, 5.2.2010
In a new indictment for contempt of court, Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj is accused of disclosing information that may reveal the identity of 11 protected prosecution witnesses in a book he wrote

THE HAGUE, 4.2.2010
The defense of the two former Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic imply that JNA was the main culprit for the attack on Bosanski Samac and the crimes perpetrated there. Witness Sulejman Tihic contends that the ‘Serbian specials’ played the dominant role in the attack and the crimes

THE HAGUE, 4.2.2010
Denying that the Serbian security forces were involved in the Kosovo crimes, retired general Djordje Curcin claimed that he and other VJ officers were given preventive training in international humanitarian law. According to Curcin, there’s nothing controversial in the fact that he regularly met with and supported one of the most wanted fugitives from international justice, Ratko Mladic

THE HAGUE, 3.2.2010
Former chairman of the Party of Democratic Action in Bosanski Samac Sulejman Tihic contends that the members of the Special Operations Unit ‘were the masters of life and death, they knew how to fight and handle weapons’. Tihic was detained in five detention facilities but suffered the most in Bosanski Samac at the hands of the ‘Serbian specials’

THE HAGUE, 3.2.2010
Retired general Djordje Curcin noted that Serbian forces were determined to respect the civilians’ rights. In April 1999, Curcin said, he drafted an order on behalf of the VJ General Staff: the defense against the NATO campaign was to be carried out with full respect of international humanitarian law

THE HAGUE, 2.2.2010
In his evidence in the defense of police general Vlastimir Djordjevic former chief of the VJ General Staff Branko Krga admitted that the military intelligence officers learned in the spring of 1999 that there were two mass graves near Prizren. Krga however claimed that it was the police and not the army that was responsible to undertake investigation. Are Russians friends of Serbs if Jews run their country?

THE HAGUE, 2.2.2010
Protected witness described in detail the crimes of Seselj’s men in Mostar and its environs. The accused contends that local paramilitaries were responsible for the crimes. According to the accused, the paramilitaries ‘misrepresented themselves’ as the SRS volunteers. Seselj indicated he intended to call for his acquittal in March, after the prosecution has rested its case. According to Seselj, the prosecution failed to prove his responsibility on all counts

THE HAGUE, 1.2.2010
In his evidence at the trial of Bosnian Serb police leaders, former BH deputy interior minister Vitomir Zepinic said that he regretted that MUP hadn’t arrested all the leaders of nationalist parties, as that would have allowed the people to opt for peace instead of war