THE HAGUE – The prosecution will call its first witness at the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, charged with crimes in Srebrenica and Zepa. New witnesses will take the stand at the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic and at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin. The Trial Chamber will call yet another witness in the Vojislav Seselj case. The defenses of general Milivoj Petkovic, Momcilo Perisic and Vlastimir Djordjevic go on with their cases. At the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, former assistant commander for intelligence and security in the VRS Main Staff, the prosecution will call its first witness on Thursday. Tolimir is indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Srebrenica and Zepa in the summer of 1995.

Next week, the prosecution will continue cross-examining General Milivoj Petkovic. The former chief of the HVO Main Staff is testifying in his own defense. Together with five other former Bosnian Croat leaders, Petkovic is on trial for taking part in the joint criminal enterprise and other crimes in the conflict between the HVO and the BH army. The aim of the joint criminal enterprise was to annex parts of BH to neighboring Croatia.

At the trial of the Serbian Radical leader Vojislav Seselj, another Chamber’s witness, with the pseudonym VS 1058, is expected to appear on Tuesday. According to the prosecution pre-trial brief, the witness should talk about the pattern of conduct of the accused. Next week the prosecution will call its next witness at the trial of Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin. Stanisic and Zupljanin are indicted for crimes in 20 BH municipalities in 1992. At the trial of the two former chiefs of the Serbian State Security, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, the court will hear the evidence of a prosecution witness testifying under the pseudonym JF 015. The prosecution has estimated that the witness would testify for five hours.

At the trial of former chief of the VJ General Staff Momcilo Perisic, the defense will continue the examination-in-chief of General Stamenko Nikolic. Last week, Nikolic spoke in detail about the establishment and operation of the 30th and 40th Personnel Centers. As alleged by the prosecution, the VJ personnel were transferred through those centers to serve in the VRS and SVK. Perisic is charged with providing substantial support to the SVK and VRS personnel contributing thus to their crimes in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Srebrenica. Finally, the defense case will continue at the trial of police general Vlastimir Djordjevic, charged with crimes of the Serbian police against Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.

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