Article: War Crimes Panel Indicts Milosevic

MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-27-1999
War Crimes Panel Indicts Milosevic

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- In a historic announcement, an international tribunal said today it indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four powerful aides, calling the Yugoslav president personally responsible for planning and carrying out a gruesome campaign of war crimes in Kosovo.

It was the first time an international court has charged a sitting head of state with such crimes and atrocities.

In Belgrade, a senior government minister was immediately defiant, dismissing the indictments as politically motivated and saying Yugoslav authorities would not recognize the jurisdiction of the U.N. war crimes ...

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