FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2004 - The so-called "expert witness" Berko Zecevic testified at the so-called "trial" of Slobodan Milosevic.

Mr. Zecevic was attached to the main staff of the ABiH. He was in charge of the research and development of weaponry for the Muslim forces. He also oversaw the production of weaponry for the Muslim forces.

In spite of the fact that he has an obvious conflict of interest, Mr. Zecevic wrote a report in which he concluded that the VRS fired the shell that hit the Markale Market in Sarajevo on February 5, 1994.

In his so-called "expert report" he referred to Serbs in derogatory terms calling them such names as "Chetniks" and "Aggressors."

Mr. Zecevic did not arrive at the Markale Market until after all of the shell fragments had been removed, until after materials had been dug out of the crater, and until after all of the debris had been cleaned up.

It is worth noting that UN ballistics experts who arrived on the scene immediately after the shell exploded have compiled two reports. One report says that the Muslims fired the shell, and the other report says that it can not be determined who fired the shell.

Apparently the UN's "tribunal" doesn't feel that the UN's reports are good enough. So they went out and found an "expert" who was himself a member of one of the warring factions, and who would naturally have an interest in attributing this incident to the other side, which surprise of all surprises is exactly what he did.

In spite of the fact that Mr. Zecevic's report was useless, because he had no possibility of seeing the area of impact in its undisturbed form, because he has a conflict of interest as a member of the ABiH, and because he has exhibited racist tendencies towards Serbs through the insulting names he called them in his report. In spite of all of that the day wasn't a total waste of time.

Mr. Groome produced a number of documents during the examination in chief which showed that the FRY was buying weapons and weapons components from Republika Srpska in order to properly equip the VJ. Mr. Zecevic even confirmed that the VJ needed to buy these weapons and components from Republika Srpska, because no facilities in the FRY had the ability to manufacture these things themselves.

This is quite the opposite of what has been presented by the prosecution so far. So far the prosecution has tried to make it look like everything came from the FRY to the Republika Srpska. But thanks to these documents we see that many weapons were in fact going from the Republika Srpska to the FRY.

The testimony of Ton Zwann is on the schedule for Monday, January 20th. All in all Berko Zecevic didn't prove useful for the prosecution. Slobodan Milosevic has indicated that he will call competent experts to testify so that the truth can be established about Markale once and for all.