THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Feb 8 (Hina) - A prosecutor in the trial of SlobodanMilosevic before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague used memoirswritten by the former Yugoslav president's closest aides in 1991 tocorroborate the charges
during the cross-examination of defencewitness Branko Kostic on Wednesday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Feb 8 (Hina) - A prosecutor in the trial of
Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague used memoirs
written by the former Yugoslav president's closest aides in 1991 to corroborate
the charges during the cross-examination of defence witness Branko Kostic on
Wednesday. Prosecutor Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff cited memoirs by
Kostic, Borisav Jovic and Momir Bulatovic as evidence that at the time of
disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991 key decisions were made by an informal
six-member group consisting of Milosevic, Jovic, Kostic, Bulatovic and top
Yugoslav Army generals Veljko Kadijevic and Blagoje Adzic.
The prosecutor said that Milosevic "pulled all the strings" and made
all personnel-related decisions.