BELGRADE, April 24 (Hina) - Milan Martic has said he will not testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague war crimes tribunal.
BELGRADE, April 24 (Hina) - Milan Martic has said he will not
testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
before the Hague war crimes tribunal. #L#
"I will not testify against Milosevic, even though he deserves that
I take revenge for the betrayal in 1995, when he refused to send
military assistance to RSK, which the Croatian army had already
attacked," Martic told the Wednesday edition of the Dnevnik daily.
Martic, the former president of the so-called RSK (Republika Srpska
Krajina), Croatian territory formerly occupied by Serb rebels, has
been indicted by the UN tribunal for the May 1995 shelling of
Zagreb. He has announced through his lawyer that he will surrender
to the tribunal.
Milosevic did not have it easy in 1995 due to pressures from the
international community, Martic said, but added, "He could at least
have warned Zagreb that the Yugoslav army would intervene and
everything would probably have been different."
Martic said he would go to The Hague "to defend the truth about the
suffering of Serbs in Croatia." He will request the Yugoslav
government for guarantees to be enabled to be released pending
trial.
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