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After a four-week break, the trial of Slobodan Milosevic continues with the testimony of a German reporter who covered the war in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. THE HAGUE, 12.10. (SENSE) - Unlike Bosnia, where he was as a war correspondent from May 1995 until March 1996, German reporter Franz Josef Hutsch got the impression in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 that "a lot of things were staged" or "orchestrated" and that the Kosovo Liberation Army had very good “PR advisers." The German reporter is one of the few witnesses from Milosevic's list contacted by defense counsel Steven Kay during...

THE HAGUE : The mammoth trial of Slobodan Milosevic resumed at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, with testimony about the 1999 massacre of some 45 people in the Kosovo town of Racak. The alleged massacre of civilians by Serb troops in Racak is a key element in the UN court's indictment against the former Yugoslav president over the 1998-99 conflicts in the Serb province of Kosovo. German investigative journalist Franz-Josef Hutsch on Tuesday took the stand as the fourth defence witness after the case had been adjourned for a month to give Milosevic's court-appointed defence lawyer...

Editorial While the Bush Administration dances around their lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction used to justify the conquest of Iraq, let us recall the Clinton administration lied to justify their conquest of Kosovo in 1999. No mass graves were found, except in places where a few dozen Islamic terrorists, and civilians caught in the crossfire, were killed in firefights with Serbian police. There was no "ethnic cleansing" by the Serbian army, which includes thousands of Muslim soldiers. Reports that civilians were forced to vacate cities by evil Serbian police proved false; they fled because they were terrified...

Berliner Zeitung, Saturday, January 17, 2004 No interest in fallen Serbs Work of the Hague tribunal in Racak case criticized Markus Bickel SARAJEVO/HELSINKI, January - Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta has expressed lack of comprehension regarding the work of the UN's Hague tribunal in the case of the so-called massacre of Racak. In an interview with "Berliner Zeitung", the head of the forensic team sent by the EU to investigate occurrences in the Kosovo village of Racak in January, 1999, criticized that indications of serious fighting between Serbian soldiers and Albanian fighters on the night of 15th to 16th of January,...