THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Jan 20(Hina) - The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague continued in closed session on Tuesday so that a protected prosecution witness could complete
his testimony.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Jan 20(Hina) - The trial of former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague
continued in closed session on Tuesday so that a protected prosecution
witness could complete his testimony.#L#
The witness was scheduled to complete his testimony in the morning
session, after which the prosecutors were to present another witness.
The prosecution has 13 working days left to present its evidence, and
if nothing unexpected happens, the first part of the trial, which
started a little more than two years ago, will end on February 18.
Milosevic is charged with genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and crimes
against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo.
The chief prosecutor in the case, Geoffrey Nice, announced last week
that Hrvoje Sarinic, former head of the office of the late Croatian
president Franjo Tudjman who had secret talks with Milosevic during
the war in Croatia, would give testimony on Wednesday.
Sarinic secretly met the accused 13 times in Serbia between 1993 and
1995. He wrote a book entitled "All My Secret Negotiations with
Milosevic", in which he said that Milosevic had supported division of
Bosnia-Herzegovina between Serbia and Croatia, while Tudjman thought
that the partitioning of Bosnia-Herzegovina would deter Milosevic from
Croatia.
Sarinic told reporters after his visit to The Hague in mid-December
last year, when he prepared his testimony with prosecutors for six
days, that the prosecutors would include the book into evidence along
with his written statement under Rule 92-bis and an interview with
Globus weekly from 2000.
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