WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Hina) - The Yugoslav authorities are in every way discouraging its citizens from testifying against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal, the
director of the Coalition for International Justice, Nina Bang Jensen, told the "Voice of America" on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Hina) - The Yugoslav authorities are in every
way discouraging its citizens from testifying against former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague-based
international war crimes tribunal, the director of the Coalition
for International Justice, Nina Bang Jensen, told the "Voice of
America" on Thursday. #L#
When it comes to parts of the indictment relating to Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Croatia, the government in Belgrade did not give
former state officials any signal to testify without fear of being
criminally prosecuted at home, Jensen said.
She added that Belgrade was paying a high price for this.
Yugoslavia's membership in a number of international organisations
has been frozen, and its acquiring the status of the most privileged
nation in the US in trade has been postponed, she said.
According to the American attorney, the Milosevic trial is
proceeding well.
During the proceedings so far, the prosecution has proven certain
events as well as that Milosevic is directly responsibly for them.
Even if the prosecution fails to prove direct involvement, which
Jensen believes it has managed to do, there still remains the issue
of superior responsibility.
Milosevic knew that was happening, he was aware of what his troops
were doing and did not prevent the violations of the norms of
international law, nor did he punish those responsible for the
violations, Jensen stated.
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