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Article: Milosevic's War Crimes Trial Opens
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- February 12, 2002
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Title: Milosevic's War Crimes Trial Opens
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
went on trial Tuesday before a U.N. tribunal, accused of overseeing
the murder of thousands of people and the displacement of more than
a million in three Balkan wars.
Milosevic, who was expected to argue that the trial is inherently
unfair, looked calm and glanced around the courtroom as the court
registrar opened the proceedings by reading the case number: IT0254T.
The trial against the former Yugoslav president for alleged atrocities
during the breakup of Yugoslavia is Europe's most important war crimes
case since the Nuremberg ...