THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, June 16 (Hina) - Police expert Budimir Babovic accused former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Monday of having adapted the implementation of laws to suit his own needs.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, June 16 (Hina) - Police expert Budimir Babovic
accused former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Monday of
having adapted the implementation of laws to suit his own needs.
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Testifying for the prosecution at Milosevic's trial before the
Hague war crimes tribunal, Babovic said to Milosevic: "You upheld
the Constitution and laws only to the extent that suited you. There
are many testimonies to that".
Cross-examining the witness, Milosevic tried to dispute that he had
direct control over Serbia's State Security Service (SDB).
Babovic was the chief of Yugoslavia's Interpol office from 1983
through 1991. He made an analysis of police activity during
Milosevic's rule for the Hague prosecutor's office in which he
singled out Milosevic as the most responsible person for what
Serbian police did since 1986.
The defendant insisted that as Yugoslav president he had no power
over Serbia's interior ministry or its SDB, but Babovic said
Milosevic passed a decision under which the SDB chief had to act on
orders from Milosevic and not the interior minister.
Milosevic is accused of crimes against humanity committed in
Croatia and Kosovo, and of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The trial resumed with the testimony of protected prosecutorial
witness B-1047.
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