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The trial of Dr. Stakić on the allegations set out in the Indictment began on 16 April 2002 and concluded on 15 April 2003 after 150 days of hearings. He faced charges of genocide or alternatively complicity in genocide, murder as a violation of the laws or customs of war, and the following crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, persecutions, deportation, and other inhumane acts (forcible transfer) in relation to events that took place in the Municipality of Prijedor between 30 April and 30 September 1992.
The Trial Chamber heard 81 live witnesses, including six witnesses called by the Chamber under Rule 98. A total of 1448 exhibits were admitted into evidence, 796 for the Prosecution, 594 for the Defence and 58 Chamber exhibits. The trial is reflected in 15,337 pages of transcript.
The Trial Chamber found that the takeover of Prijedor by the Serbian Democratic Party on 29-30 April 1992 was an illegal coup d'état which had been planned and coordinated for months and which had as its final goal the creation of a Serbian municipality eventually to form part of an envisaged pure Serbian state. After the takeover, Dr. Staki} became, inter alia, President of the Municipal Assembly and President of the Prijedor Municipal Peoples' (National) Defence Council. From May 1992 he served as President of the Prijedor Municipal Crisis Staff. Dr. Staki} was the leading political figure in the Municipality of Prijedor in 1992.
A comprehensive pattern of atrocities amounting to a campaign of a persecutorial nature was proved to have been committed against non-Serbs in Prijedor municipality in 1992. This included killings on a massive scale in the Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje camps, in Bosnian Muslim towns and villages throughout the municipality, and, finally, on Mount Vlasi}. The Trial Chamber held Dr. Staki} responsible for more than 1,500 killings and was able to identify by name 486 victims. Rapes, sexual assaults and beatings were committed at the camps and at least 20,000 non-Serbs either fled Prijedor or were deported.
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