Milosevic begins defence against genocide charges
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The trial of Slobodan Milosevic has resumed in The Hague, with the former Yugoslav president presenting his opening statement against charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1990s wars in the Balkans.
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The first international war crimes  trial of former Kosovo Albanian rebels was due to begin on  Monday, with three men accused of murdering Serb civilians and  suspected collaborators during the 1998-99 conflict.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his long-delayed defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, describing the battles of his Serbian people as self defense against internal rebellions and external attacks by Islamic warriors.    Milosevic, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in the Balkans, portrayed the Serbs as victims rather than aggressors: victims of a plan supported by the United States and Europe to break up Yugoslavia, of an attempt to wipe out Croatia's Serb minority, and of a Saudi-financed plot to create an Islamic state in Bosnia...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, starting the long-delayed second half of his trial on charges of genocide and other war crimes in the Balkans.    Milosevic began by complaining to the judges that he was allotted only four hours to make his opening statement, while prosecutors were given three days to outline their case when the trial began in February 2002...
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, starting the long-delayed second half of his trial on charges of genocide and other war crimes in the ...
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Slobodan Milosevic's court-appointed lawyer asked an appeals court Thursday to allow the former Yugoslav president to conduct his own defense against war crimes charges.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is refusing to cooperate with two lawyers appointed to defend him before the U.N. war crimes tribunal - even as they prepare to call the first witness in his defense ...
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has promised to open his trial defense on Tuesday by fighting &quot;monstrous&quot; accusations that he masterminded ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is refusing to cooperate with two lawyers appointed to defend him before the U.N. war crimes tribunal &#151; even as they prepare to call the first witness in his defense case.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands  - Slobodan Milosevic is  set to launch his much-delayed defense Tuesday as judges  grapple with how to make sure the former Yugoslav president's  landmark war crimes trial is completed despite his poor health.
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THE HAGUE, Aug. 31 -- Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic  launched on Tuesday a defiant defense of his conduct during the Balkan wars, accusing his enemies of conspiracies against the Serbs and insisting that his countrymen acted in self-defense.
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Media throughout the former Yugoslavia take distinctive approaches to the opening defence speech by former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic at his trial in The Hague.
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A defense lawyer appointed to Slobodan Milosevic by the U.N. tribunal said Tuesday he would seek a suspension of the war crimes trial after failing to line up witnesses.
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The U.N. war crimes prosecutor sent the first case to the Serbian judiciary Friday in a move that could warm ties between the Hague-based court and Belgrade.
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Ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic denies Serbs committed war crimes he is accused of orchestrating.
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Deposed Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's trial resumed Tuesday at the international war crimes tribunal with the court hearing a British lawyer's request to be dismissed as a standby defence counsel.
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THE HAGUE -- Slobodan Milosevic launched a defiant defense yesterday of his conduct during the Balkan wars, accusing his enemies of conspiracies against the Serbs and insisting his countrymen acted in self-defense.