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Article: Milosevic War Crimes Trial Resumes
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- January 9, 2003
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Dateline: THE HAGUE, Netherlands
A dreaded Serbian paramilitary force known for its brutality during
the Balkan wars was under the direct command of Slobodan Milosevic,
a former member of the so-called "Red Berets" testified as the former
Yugsolav president's war crimes trial resumed.
Milosevic, acting as his own defense attorney, sought to discredit
the witness by wringing an admission from him that he was involved
in the slaying of a Serb warlord known as Arkan, the highest-profile
assassination since the end of the Balkan wars.
The trial of the former Yugoslav resumed at the war crimes tribunal
in The Hague after a three-week break over the holiday season. ...