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...accused of violently tearing apart. Three victims of Milosevic's alleged crimes appeared in the first week of testimony--all men, all farmers, all Kosovo Albanian Muslims from small villages. One of them, Agim Zeqiri, 49, described losing his entire family--his wife, a son and four daughters--when Serb forces attacked his village. Milosevic questioned him, sometimes belligerently, for about 30 minutes; the next day Zeqiri pleaded he was too sick to continue and was excused...
...sharply at odds with that of his accusers. Prosecutors say Milosevic ruthlessly deported 800,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo; Milosevic says they left because of NATO's bombs and Kosovo Albanian terrorists. Prosecutors say the former President was attempting to form a "Greater Serbia," or at least a Serb-dominated state; Milosevic says the West broke up Yugoslavia to create a "Greater Albania." Prosecutors say Milosevic's troops committed unspeakable massacres; Milosevic says his troops did not massacre anyone and he was just defending his country from domestic terrorists...
However vehemently Milosevic insists that the whole Serb nation stands accused, this is his trial alone. He is taking a road that has been traveled before in Serb history: he is the victim, the little guy against the world, who will be victorious even--or especially--in defeat. He may be in prison, but he says he is free. "My name is Slobodan with a capital S," he said; slobodan means free in his native language. He declares he was a peacemaker whose only crime was to oppose "the might" of the West...
...Slobodan Milosevic moved into high gear with the first five witnesses called to testify that the former President was responsible for the deportation of 800,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and the murder of hundreds more. Kosovo Albanian political leader Mahmut Bakali, who had meetings with Milosevic, said that Serbs imposed an "apartheid" state on ethnic Albanians after Milosevic became leader. But it was those furthest removed from power who gave the most striking testimony: the first Kosovo Albanian victims testified against - and were questioned by - the man they hold most responsible for the burnings, lootings, murders and deportations that...
...lawyer, but Slobodan Milosevic is acting as his own defense attorney in court. In an aggressive cross-examination that sought to discredit the prosecution's first witness, he questioned Kosovo Albanian political leader for almost four hours, twice as long as prosecutors. Bakali testified Monday about the "apartheid state" Serb leaders imposed on Kosovo's ethnic Albanians after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power. He also testified that during his meetings with the former president, he informed Milosevic that Serb forces were committing crimes against ethnic Albanians, particularly the 1998 massacre of the Jashari family. Mahmut Bakali testified that Milsoevic...