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Europe
Milosevic court sees video of killings
2005-06-02
The trial is still continuing?
The prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic yesterday produced what it claimed to be the first public evidence of a link between the former president of Serbia and the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in July 1995. A videotape, parts of which were played to the court, showed a group of Bosniaks being held by an armed unit, then driven by lorry and marched to a site where they were summarily shot.

The lead prosecutor, Geoffrey Nice, said the victims had been transported from the Srebrenica area after the fall of the enclave, and that the executioners were part of the infamous Scorpions unit, under the command of the secret services, or DB, of Serbia's interior ministry, and within Mr Milosevic's chain of command and control.

It is still not clear whether the tape can be introduced as evidence, with a year now passed since the prosecution closed its case. Mr Milosevic's court-appointed counsel, Steven Kay, hinted at a legal battle should Mr Nice seek to enter it.
Didn't they have it a year ago, or was it left in Carla del Ponte's VCR?
Mr Milosevic denies involvement in the Srebrenica massacre. If the tape's authenticity can be proved, it could help the charge against Mr Milosevic for the only legally established genocidal episode of the war.

The tape was shown during a cross-examination of Obrad Stevanovic, assistant interior minister under Mr Milosevic, who appeared for the defence. The witness was asked to identify the killers, but said he could not, although he was aware of the Scorpions. Mr Stevanovic has said "a group under that name was never active" under the interior ministry, but some of its members may have been policemen.

The prosecution has been at pains to establish how units under Mr Milosevic's command, from Serbia proper, were active in Bosnia, notably the Scorpions and special units of the Serbian interior ministry, or MUP. There is film of MUP commander Franko Simatovic boasting to the president about how well his soldiers were fighting.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  " The campaign continues " - Richard Daley , after results of the previous days election day poll established George W Bush the winner of florida's crucial 25 electoral votes. Subsequent recounts, a full statewide recount was mandatiory in such a close vote, only confirmed Bushes 549 vote lead. If its not close they can't cheat.
But think about this, with a margin of 549 votes, is it conceivable that there were five, six hundred muslims who had registered and voted for George Bush, with the expressed racist aim of voting against Gore, simply because his running mate was a Jew? And have decided an otherwise draw, in a nationally close election?
Posted by: an dalusian dog   2005-06-02 16:25  

#2  "The trial is still continuing?"

Aside from the obvious anti-American angle inherent in it, the EUropeans wonder why we want no part of the ICC? Between the beyond-parody nature of the Milosevic trial and the "you naughty boy" sentences handed down for the earlier convictions, I can't believe anyone takes these courts seriously. I suppose that having a trial at all is considered justice in EUrope.
Posted by: Xbalanke   2005-06-02 13:07  

#1  Slobodan Milosevich vs Mr.Nice. Predictions, anyone?
Posted by: Grunter   2005-06-02 09:08  

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