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Article: On trial. (war crimes)(Dusan Tadic, first Serb to stand trial for war crimes)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 11, 1996
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THE HAGUE
DUSAN TADIC is a short, nervous-looking man who avoids the gaze of curious onlookers. Instead, he stares fixedly into the court itself: at its United Nations flags and UN-blue chairs, its ultra-modern computers and furniture, its judges in red-and-black robes. He might be forgiven for not believing his surroundings. On May 7th, Mr Tadic, a Bosnian Serb cafe owner, found himself in front of the UN war-crimes tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia, facing the first international war-crimes trial since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after the second world war.
Mr Tadic is accused of assorted "crimes against humanity", including killing, mutilating and beating ...