donderdag, januari 20, 2005
Judge Criticizes Milosevic Witness
Las Vegas SUN | "The judge at Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial criticized testimony from one of the former Yugoslav president's witnesses Tuesday, saying it sounded like 'a conversation over a cup of tea on the veranda.'
Milosevic, who is defending himself against 66 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes at the U.N. trial that resumed Tuesday after a three-week break, had called French nurse Eve Crepin to testify about the suffering of Serbs in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Crepin worked in field hospitals for the United Nations and various humanitarian aid organizations in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. She later co-authored the book 'The Assassination of a People,' about violence against Serbs.
Crepin greeted the court in Serbo-Croatian but later testified in French as Milosevic questioned her for two hours.
Crepin said she wanted to talk about 'the unjust treatment of the Serbs and the Serbian president' and accused Western media of ignoring their suffering during the war and the U.N. tribunal of being biased against Serbs."
