THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - Former NATO commander Wesley Clark said on Tuesday ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic still showed the stubbornness and irritability typical of the time of his rule.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - Former NATO commander Wesley
Clark said on Tuesday ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
still showed the stubbornness and irritability typical of the time
of his rule. #L#
Talking to reporters after his testimony in the Milosevic trial
before the Hague war crimes tribunal, Clark said he had not noticed
a change in the attitude, stubbornness, and irritability of the man
he believed was responsible for so much bloodshed and victims in the
Balkans.
The retired general and current U.S. Democratic presidential
candidate commanded NATO's 11-week bombing of the then Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia which stopped the war in Kosovo in the spring
of 1999.
Yesterday and today he testified behind closed doors, in the
presence of two representatives of the United States
administration and according to a previously established line of
questioning.
The Hague tribunal will release a recording of the testimony on
Friday after U.S. officials have examined it and eliminated, with
the judges' consent, parts which infringed on U.S. national
security.
Prior to the NATO raids on Yugoslavia and during the U.S.' peace
efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1994-5, Clark held a series of
meetings with Milosevic, describing them in his memoirs.
The prosecution entered segments from the book into evidence.
The trial of Milosevic, accused of genocide in Bosnia and crimes
against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo, resumes on Wednesday.
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