The trial of Ratko Mladic resumed on August 21, 2012, following the ICTY summer recess. The Court heard testimony from Aernout Van Lynden, a journalist who covered the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Van Lynden spent time in Sarajevo and Pale during the war and met with both Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.
Prior to the recess, testimony was heard from the following witnesses: Elvedin Pašić, who fled from his village after it was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces and was detained by Bosnian Serb soldiers; David Harland, a UN employee stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the relevant time; Christina Schmitz, a nurse who worked for Doctors Without Borders in Srebrenica; Joseph Kingori, a UN military observer deployed to Srebrenica in 1995; a protected witness known as RM255, who was a survivor of the executions at the Branjevo Military Farm; and Eelco Koster, who was an officer of the Dutch Batallion stationed at Potočari .
