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Article: War crimes trial will test Serbian court system Belgrade wants to keep cases out of U.N. tribunal
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 10, 2004
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- A landmark war crimes trial opened
Tuesday for six Serbs accused of slaughtering 192 Croatian prisoners
during the Balkan conflicts, a key test of Serbia's ability to find
justice for its wartime atrocities.
The trial over the killings in Vukovar, Croatia, comes amid a
resurgence of nationalist sentiment in the Serb republic, now run by
a prime minister who opposes the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The
Hague, Netherlands, as biased against Serbs.
Serbia's judiciary hopes that if the trial meets international
standards, it will be able to try more cases at home rather than at
the U.N. tribunal, where former Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic is