ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Feb 16 (Hina) - Ex Yugoslav president Slobodan hadMilosevic publicly advocated the preservation of Yugoslavia and thestrategy that he implemented together with the leadership of theso-called SAO Krajina was to make
it possible for all Serbs to live inone state, witness Milan Babic said on Thursday before the UN warcrimes tribunal at the trial of former Croatian Serb rebel leaderMilan Martic.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Feb 16 (Hina) - Ex Yugoslav president Slobodan
had Milosevic publicly advocated the preservation of Yugoslavia and the
strategy that he implemented together with the leadership of the so-called SAO
Krajina was to make it possible for all Serbs to live in one state, witness
Milan Babic said on Thursday before the UN war crimes tribunal at the trial of
former Croatian Serb rebel leader Milan Martic. The secret strategy
was to form paramilitary units, primarily in SAO Krajina, and then to provoke
incidents, Babic said on the second day of his testimony against Martic
The ICTY charged Martic, who voluntarily surrendered on 15 May 2002,
with war crimes against Croatian civilians on occupied territory between 1991
and 1995, crimes in western Bosnia in 1994 and for the shelling of Zagreb in
May 1995.
Babic will continue to testify on Friday morning.