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MILOSEVIC TRIAL, PART III Witness after witness came to the Hague to testify against Milosevic. Let us have a look at Milan Babic. In an unprecedented step, judges in the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic revealed the identity of a key witness. Milan Babic first appeared as a secret witness, but all of Yugoslavia knew who he was. The man, who has so far been referred to as Witness C-61, was named as Milan Babic, a former senior Croatian Serb leader and former ally of Mr Milosevic. Mr Babic has been giving evidence in secret for...

Chirac 'in secret deal with Serb general' By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 11/07/2003) President Jacques Chirac negotiated a secret deal to protect Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general accused of Europe's worst atrocities since the Second World War, according to evidence submitted to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Ratko Mladic M Chirac allegedly agreed to sabotage the extradition of Gen Mladic to face genocide charges for his role in the planned extermination of Bosnian Muslims, including the massacre of 7,000 men and boys in the UN safe haven of Srebrenica in July 1995. In exchange,...