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July 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Pasic is expected to “describe the destruction and damage to
residential property, attacks on villages (and) the persecution of non-Serbs,”
prosecutors said in a witness list before the court.
Having previously testified in other trials, Mr Pasic will recall how he was
separated from other men in his family and consequently “survived the
execution of around 150 persons in November 1992 in the village of Grabovica,”
in northern Bosnia.
Mladic, 70, has been indicted by the ICTY on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes
and crimes against humanity for his role in the Balkan country’s war.
The trial of the man dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” was abruptly
suspended on May 17, only a day after it opened in The Hague, because of
prosecution irregularities.
Mladic faces charges relating to the massacre in the enclave of Srebrenica in
northeastern Bosnia in 1995, when almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys were
murdered by Bosnian Serb troops under Mladic’s command.
He also faces charges for the terrorising of the capital Sarajevo during 44
months of shelling and sniping which killed 10,000 people.
Prosecutors also hold him responsible for taking some 200 UN peacekeepers
hostage and for allegedly ordering his troops to “cleanse” Bosnian
towns, driving out Croats, Muslims and other non-Serb residents.
At the same time that the prosecution was beginning, thousands lined the
streets of Sarajevo to pay their respects to the remains of 520 victims of
the Srebrenica massacre who will be buried on the 17th anniversary of the
atrocity.
Three trucks loaded with 520 coffins passed through Sarajevo on their way to
the Potocari cemetery near Srebrenica where they will be buried on Wednesday.
“Our children are returning to where they left from in 1995.
Unfortunately, they are not alive,” Munira Subasic, who heads an
organisation of women of Srebrenica whose husbands and sons were killed,
told AFP as she watched the vehicles.
Mladic was arrested in northeastern Serbia last year after some 16 years on
the run and subsequently moved to The Hague. He has pleaded not guilty to
the charges. If found guilty, he could face life in prison.
Pasic will be followed in the witness box by UN adviser David Harland, who
will describe the siege of Sarajevo, where 1,000 shells landed on average
each day between 1993 and 1995, with the exception of lulls during a 1994
ceasefire.
Also among the first witnesses to testify will be Eelco Koster, one of the
some 450 Dutch UN peacekeepers guarding the “protected” enclave at
Srebrenica when it was overrun by Mladic’s forces.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic is also on trial before
the ICTY, with both men accused of being the masterminds of a criminal plan
to rid multi-ethnic Bosnia of Croats and Muslims.
Mladic’s one-time mentor, former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic died in
The Hague four years into his own genocide trial in 2006.
Source: AFP
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