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Article: Kosovo Part Of Milosevic War Crimes Trial Ends; Next Phase Will Focus On Bosnia, Croatia Wars
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- September 12, 2002
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U.N. war crimes prosecutors today rested the first phase of their
case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic following
95 days of testimony focused on proving that, as commander in chief,
Milosevic had to have known that his forces were committing
atrocities in Kosovo.
The 300 exhibits and 124 witnesses provided no direct evidence
that the former leader ordered killings or mass expulsions of
civilians during the 1998-99 conflict in the Serbian province. But
prosecutors and some trial-watchers contend that a compelling case
was made that he was not only aware of a high-level campaign to
"ethnically cleanse" Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian population but
later took part in a ...