ANOTHER BRATUNAC TRIAL BEGINS BEFORE BOSNIAN STATE COURT THIS WEEK

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 1,2007) - One more trial for war crimes committed by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia, is due to begin before the War Crimes Chamber of the Bosnian State Court this week.

Also this week, the Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court shall consider the appeals against the verdict in the case of Serbian war criminalRadisav Ljubinac.

Today, 1 October, the trial of Serbian war criminals Mirko Todorovic and Milos Radic is due to start. The former members of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS) are charged with having committed crimes against humanity against Bosnian civilians in Bratunac in May 1992.

The Trial Chamber envisages that the process may last for 22 days. In that period the Bosnian State Prosecutor is due to examine 14 witnesses and two court experts. The defence teams of the two indictees have announced inviting more than 20 witnesses in total.

On Thursday, 4 October, the Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court shall consider the appeals against the verdict in the case of Serbian war criminal Radisav Ljubinac. On 8 March this year Ljubinac was sentenced, by a first instance verdict, to ten years imprisonment for crimes committed in the Bosnian town of Rogatica.Serbian war criminal is charged with having committed murder, maltreatment and the use of Bosnian civilians detained by the Serbian aggressor in "Rasadnik" concentration camp as human shields in the course of 1992.

The defence team of Serbian war criminal Jadranko Palija is due to begin presenting evidence on Friday, 5 October. The Bosnian State Prosecutor charges Palija, as a former member of the genocidal paramilitary formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia (VRS), with having participated in the attack on Begici hamlet and in murder of a large group of Bosnian civilians, as well as in the unlawful detention of Bosnian civilians in the concentration camp located in the settlement of Mahala in the western Bosnian town of Sanski Most.

Today, 1 October, the trial continues in the case of Serbian war criminals Zdravko Bozic, Mladen Blagojevic, Zeljko Zaric and Zoran Zivanovic, charged with crimes against humanity committed in the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac in 1995.

On the same day and also on Tuesday, 2 October, the prosecution will continue presenting evidence against Croatian war criminals Zdravko Mihaljevic, a former member of the Croatian aggressor's formations, who is charged with war crimes committed in the Bosnian village of Tulice near Kiseljak.

Also on Tuesday, the trial before the Bosnian State Court continues in the case of Serbian war criminals Mitar Rasevic and Savo Todovic, charged with crimes committed in Foca detention camp.

Two more witnesses will appear at the trial of Zijad Kurtovic on 4 October. The former commander of a military police squad with the Bosnian Army is charged with having maltreated 20 Croatian aggressor's soldiers detained in Donja Dreznica near Jablanica in 1993.

The prosecution evidence presentation process in the case of Sefik Alic,a former member of the Bosnian Army charged with killings of four captured Serbian aggressor's soldiers in 1995 is due to continue on Tuesday, 2 October.

The defence teams of the 11 Serbian war criminals charged with genocide committed in the eastern Bosnian village of Kravica,near Srebrenica,are due to examine a total of nine witnesses before the Bosnian State Court at the hearings scheduled on 3 and 4 October.

On 3, 4 and 5 October the Bosnian State Prosecutor is due to present evidence against Serbian war criminals Zeljko Mejakic, Momcilo Gruban, Dusan Fustar and Dusko Knezevic, charged with having committed crimes in detention camps in the northern Bosnian city of Prijedor during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.