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Serb lobbyist from USA testifies at Milosevic trial

ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, March 14 (Hina) - A historian and Serb lobbyist fromthe United States, professor Barry Lituchy, said at the trial ofSlobodan Milosevic at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Monday thatAlbanian and Roma refugees from Kosovo had told him in 1999 that theywere fleeing the terror of Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and NATObombing.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, March 14 (Hina) - A historian and Serb lobbyist from the United States, professor Barry Lituchy, said at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Monday that Albanian and Roma refugees from Kosovo had told him in 1999 that they were fleeing the terror of Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and NATO bombing.

Lituchy teaches history at New York University, he is active in a number of pro-Serb forums in the United States and is a member of an international committee for the protection of Slobodan Milosevic.

He is known for frequent visits to and lectures in Serbia and Montenegro and is the author of submissions to the tribunal in which he protested against Milosevic being denied rights.

Lituchy started his testimony last week. Today, the testimony focused on a video-recording of his conversations with Roma refugees in Kosovo in August 1999, in which the refugees blamed Albanian guerrillas for the burning of houses, attacks and expulsion.

The showing of the recording was discontinued at the request of judges, who said that the statements from the recording were too general and unrelated to concrete allegations.

Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice challenged the credibility of Lituchy's conversations and the witness himself, stating that he had led the refugees on and that he had shot the recording for propaganda purposes.

Submitting counter-evidence, Nice cited a statement a Kosovo Albanian from Lituchy's recordings gave last week to ICTY investigators, saying that he had made the statement in the presence of Serb police and because he feared for his family.

The trial continues tomorrow.

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