21 Oct 2010 / 03:38
A prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic says windows and doorframes were broken and roofs lifted off 11 houses when a projectile exploded in a Sarajevo suburb in April 1995.
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Witness KDZ 133, who testified under face and identity protection measures, worked as a crime technician with the Sarajevo police at the time. He participated in the crime scene inspection following the bomb explosion in Hrasnica on April 7, 1995. “In that big house which was hit by the projectile, we found a multiple rocket thrower motor, air bomb fragments and metal sheeting connecting the air bomb to the rockets that carried it,” the witness said.
He added that the projectile exploded in a part of Hrasnica where only family residences were located. Radovan Karadzic, former president of Republika Srpska, is indicted for genocide committed in Srebrenica and ten other Bosnian municipalities, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. Among other things, the Prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia charges him with responsibility for a shelling and sniping campaign conducted in Sarajevo.
The indictment alleges that, on April 7, 1995, a modified air bomb exploded in a residential part of Hrasnica, killing one and wounding three persons and damaging twelve houses.
The Prosecution alleges that the bomb was fired from Ilidza, which was controlled by the Republika Srpska Army, VRS. A crime scene sketch made by the witness was presented in the courtroom. It indicated that the projectile had come from the Ilidza area located in the northwest. “I drew the line on the basis of information given to my by the inspector. He obtained the information from an eye-witness who saw the flight and explosion of the projectile,” the witness said. At the next hearing, scheduled for October 26, witness KDZ 133 will testify about five other shelling incidents in Sarajevo. Karadzic also completed the cross-examination of witness Bogdan Vidovic at this hearing. The witness worked as a crime technician with the Sarajevo police in 1994 and 1995. “Through the testimony of this witness, the Prosecution included a few incidents which were not originally covered by the indictment. I am thankful for that, because I will use those incidents to show what Muslims did in order to put us into a compromising situation.
"They do not have one single clear sniper incident targeted against civilians,” Karadzic said, responding to the Trial Chamber's claims that his examination of the witness was too detailed and that he did not carefully use the time allocated for the examination. He said that the bullet penetration angles and firing directions were falsified in Sarajevo police reports.
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