A psychiatric court board declared Dragomir Parovic able to stand trial for taking part in the massacre of some 1,000 Bosniaks on July 13, 1995, two days after the genocide in nearby Srebrenica, the Beta news agency reported on Friday.

Parovic slit his wrists in May and was hospitalised, causing the delay in the trial which resumed on Friday.

“Dragomir Parovic is capable of understanding the procedures and consequences, and to follow the trial on his own or with an attorney's help,” the board’s finding said.

It added Parovic was “oriented in all directions with clear memory and thinking.”

His defence lawyer Vladimir Petronijevic asked for more time to study the board’s findings, but the court rejected another delay.

The trail continued behind closed doors with the hearing of a protected witness.

The indictment said that Parovic was among some other Serbs who together with the unidentified members of the Serb entity Republika Srpska’s Special Brigade, killed 1,313 Bosniaks from the nearby Srebrenica, a UN-safe zone until July 11, when the Bosnian Serbs’ army overran it.

The Kravice massacre took place in Kravice's farmhouse two days after the Srebrenica genocide. The trial started on February 6, 2017. The defendants pleaded innocent and remain free during the trial.