The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic resumed on Tuesday afternoon, with the questioning of the first prosecution witness.
Karadzic is on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and violating the laws and customs of war stemming from the 1992-95 Bosnian war. He denies them all.
Witness Ahmet Zulic, who was held in Serb-ran detention camps at the start of the war in Bosnia (1992-1995), confirmed that he saw Bosnian Serb forces execute 15 men. He also said witnesses witnessed several prisoners dying of suffocation
In his opening statement to the court on March 1, Karadzic denied involvement in the four-year siege of Sarajevo by Serb forces, where 10,000 died, and the killing of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
