PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE AGAINST FIKRET ABDIC ENDS

KARLOVAC, June 18 (Hina) - The presentation of evidence before the Karlovac county court against Fikret Abdic for war crimes in the so- called West Bosnian province in 1993, 1994 and 1995 has ended, and Abdic will present his defence from June 26. #L# Deputy county prosecutor Aleksandar Mitic was not satisfied with Tuesday's testimony by a medical forensic expert, Mira Mlinac Lucijanic, and asked of the panel of judges to provide new expert testimony. The panel dismissed the request saying that a new expert testimony would not yield different results with the medical documentation at hand. The expert testimony related to eight victims of refugee centres. For most of them there is medical documentation. Witnesses testified to most of them having been beaten and exhausted. The prosecution attempted to connect the injuries and deaths with treatment in the camps by using witness testimonies. Witness Lucijanic said that the causes of some injuries or deaths could have been of different origin than the treatment in camps. She said that the broken wrist of Mehmed Jusic was the kind of injury one would receive in defending oneself, when protecting the body from blows with an arm, but could also be caused by falling on a sharp object. (hina) lml sb