ZAGREB, May 9 (Hina) - Ari Kerkkannen, a former analyst of theProsecution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the formerYugoslavia (ICTY), on Tuesday testified at the trial of Milan Marticwhom the UN tribunal in The Hague
charges with the 1995 shelling ofZagreb, war crimes against Croat civilians in the Serb-held areas ofCroatia from 1991 to 1995 and war crimes against non-Serbs inSerb-controlled areas of western Bosnia.
ZAGREB, May 9 (Hina) - Ari Kerkkannen, a former analyst of the
Prosecution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY), on Tuesday testified at the trial of Milan Martic whom the UN tribunal
in The Hague charges with the 1995 shelling of Zagreb, war crimes against Croat
civilians in the Serb-held areas of Croatia from 1991 to 1995 and war crimes
against non-Serbs in Serb-controlled areas of western Bosnia. The
witness said that there had been close links between various military and
police services of the Serb statelet of Krajina in Croatia and the Serb-held
areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Interior Ministry of Serbia.
According to documents which he analysed, those services actively
cooperated.
The witness completed his testimony today, and the chairman of the
trial chamber, Judge Bakone Justice Moloto decided the trial would be adjourned
until further notice due to the illness of the indictee, Milan Martic, who was
not present at today's hearing.