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Article: Milosevic War Crimes Trial Begins
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- February 12, 2002
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Title: Milosevic War Crimes Trial Begins
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ Slobodan Milosevic orchestrated the
murders of thousands of people in a campaign of "savagery" with the
sole goal of satisfying his all-consuming thirst for power, a prosecutor
said Tuesday, opening the former Yugoslav president's trial for war
crimes.
Milosevic, the first head of state to face an international tribunal,
listened impassively, occasionally jotting notes, as United Nations
attorneys sketched a complex case spanning nearly a decade of horror
in three Balkan countries.
The prosecution gave a first glimpse of a litany of agony _ rape,
torture, looting, expulsion and almost ...