The boycott by defence witnesses, who are protesting against the appointment of defence counsel by the court, has been threatening the conduct of the longest and most complex trial at the UN tribunal since the start of the defence case on August 31.
Over the past 12 weeks Kay has managed to call only five witnesses, because 80 per cent of the announced witnesses have refused to come to The Hague to testify.
On Thursday, the tribunal's appeals chamber will hear an appeal against the assignment of defence counsel, which has been filed by Kay on Milosevic's behalf. The appeal proposes that Milosevic be given back the right to run his own defence despite his ill health.
Judges today heard Liana Kanneli, a Communist Party member of the Greek parliament and journalist, who spoke of her reporting from Serbia during a NATO bombing campaign in April 1999.
Kanneli described her stay in Aleksinac, saying that she had not seen any military installations in this town in southern Serbia and that the victims of the bombing were civilians. Photographs of a residential building hit during the bombing of Aleksinac were shown in the courtroom.
The witness said that the bombing of the Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro was "the last scene of a dramatic 10-year show" and referred to the tribunal as "a political court", which earned her a caution from presiding judge Patrick Robinson for "an inappropriate comment".
Speaking of the bombing of the building housing the Serbian state-run television network, Kanneli said that the attack had been announced, because all foreign reporters had left the building, while local reporters stayed and were killed.
During the cross-examination, prosecutor Geoffrey Nice challenged the credibility of the testimony, showing a report by Human Rights Watch according to which the building that was hit in Aleksinac was the Deligrad army barracks in which ten persons were killed.
Responding to the prosecutor's questions, Kanneli confirmed that she was deputy head of the campaign for the release of Slobodan Milosevic.
Asked by Nice if she thought the United States could be compared to Nazi Germany, the witness said that US policy today was the policy of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which she described as a neo-Nazi and criminal policy.
Milosevic has been on trail since February 12, 2002. He is charged with genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Croatia and Kosovo in the 1990s.