ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Feb 17 (Hina) - During the war in Croatia in 1991,the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) functioned as a buffer zone butduring the attack on Kijevo in the Knin municipality the army for thefirst time acted offensively,
Milan Babic told the UN war crimestribunal in The Hague on Friday as a witness for the prosecution inthe trial against Milan Martic, former interior and defence ministerof the Serb paramilitary statelet in Croatia, the so-called SAOKrajina.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Feb 17 (Hina) - During the war in Croatia in
1991, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) functioned as a buffer zone but during
the attack on Kijevo in the Knin municipality the army for the first time acted
offensively, Milan Babic told the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on
Friday as a witness for the prosecution in the trial against Milan Martic,
former interior and defence minister of the Serb paramilitary statelet in
Croatia, the so-called SAO Krajina. Babic, whom the ICTY also
indicted for leading rebel Serbs in Croatia, is testifying before in the Hague
tribunal about the role of his former associate Martic, who commander the
militia of the so called SAO Krajina, special police forces, the state security
service, the territorial defence and other Serb forces.
The trial will resume on Monday.