THE HAGUE, Sept 26 (Hina) - The Croatian and Bosnian stage of the trial against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, accused of genocide in what the Hague-based war crimes tribunal calls Europe's worst human rights violations
since World War Two, started before the ICTY on Thursday.
THE HAGUE, Sept 26 (Hina) - The Croatian and Bosnian stage of the
trial against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,
accused of genocide in what the Hague-based war crimes tribunal
calls Europe's worst human rights violations since World War Two,
started before the ICTY on Thursday. #L#
In this stage of the trial which opens today, Yugoslavia still holds
on the the key which opens the path to unique evidence, whether this
was about witnesses who should be granted a permission to testify or
civil and military archives which had not been made available to
date, ICTY Chief Prosecutor said.
The former Yugoslav president is charged with genocide in Bosnia-
Herzegovina and crimes against humanity, violations of the laws and
customs of war and grave breeches of Geneva conventions in
Croatia.
The ICTY prosecutors will have to prove Milosevic's leading role in
the persecution of Croatian, Muslim and other non-Serb population
in Bosnia and Croatia.
Prosecutors will call 177 witnesses, 106 on Bosnia and 71 for
Croatia, its spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said on Wednesday.
After this Milosevic will present his defence.
Milosevic's trial started on February 12.
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