PROSECUTION ENTERS SKY NEWS FOOTAGE AGAINST MILOSEVIC

THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Sept 16 (Hina) - The prosecution in the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday screened several features on the shelling of Sarajevo which witness Aernhout can Lynden made for the British TV network Sky News in 1992. #L# Footage from June 1992 shows artillery fire from Serb positions around Sarajevo on the centre of the Bosnian capital. Also shown was a feature on the wounded and victims at the Kosevo hospital. Dutchman van Lynden told the Hague tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today that no shots were fired from Sarajevo on Serb positions around the city. Among the features shown in court was an interview the witness did with the commander of the Bosnian Serb army, General Ratko Mladic, at an artillery position above Sarajevo in September 1992. Mladic says in the interview that Serbs have to fight while they exist, and that he is not concerned with accusations of war crimes because he did not take part in them but only defended his people. The witness confirmed today that at that time, fire was opened on Sarajevo from a position east of the city, where he interviewed Mladic. Van Lynden said he spoke several times with then Bosnian Serb President, Radovan Karadzic, who told him in September 1992 that the entire Sarajevo belonged to the Serbs and that they could no longer live with Muslims and Croats. Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Karadzic said a wall should be erected through Sarajevo, the witness said, adding that Karadzic also told him he was meeting with Milosevic, then president of Serbia. Van Lynden said he heard from several other sources that Mladic was also meeting with Milosevic. The witness said he interviewed the defendant in July 1991, during the war in Croatia. Van Lynden said that when the cameras were turned off, Milosevic told him he had to understand that the Serbs were the victims of a conspiracy by the Vatican, the Fourth German Reich and Muslim fundamentalists, with then German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher at the helm. In that informal chat with Milosevic, van Lynden said he got the impression that Milosevic's intention was for the war to spill over into Bosnia and Kosovo once it ended in Croatia to the Serbs' liking. Van Lynden went on to say that when he asked Milosevic why he demanded for Serbs in Croatia rights he denied Albanians in Kosovo, Milosevic angrily responded that Kosovo was Serbian, would stay so, and that those were two completely different things. (hina) ha