THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - The second day of the cross-examination of a key witness for the prosecution in the section of the trial against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic concerning war crimes in Croatia passed
mostly behind closed doors to have his identity protected.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - The second day of the cross-
examination of a key witness for the prosecution in the section of
the trial against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
concerning war crimes in Croatia passed mostly behind closed doors
to have his identity protected. #L#
During the cross-examination of witness C-061, a top Croatian Serb
official in Croatia's occupied areas in the early 1990s, Milosevic
rebutted the thesis that he had, through Serbia's State Security
Service (SDB), orchestrated the actions of a section of Croatian
Serb rebels headed by Milan Martic, thus undermining the
"legitimately" elected government of the so-called SAO Krajina.
The witness, who has been testifying for eight days, repeated
several times during the trial that the SDB had established a
parallel government in Croatia's regions under Serb control, which
caused incidents to provoke Croatian police, and thus, the
involvement of the Yugoslav People's Army, in order to realise
Milosevic's political ambitions.
Milosevic also dismissed the witness's statements that he had been
behind the deployment of units of volunteers from Serbia in
Croatia, saying that only the Serbian Opposition had deployed such
units.
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