25 August 2008 Belgrade _ The trial of Serbia's former President and five other top officials for war crimes in the 1999 Kosovo
conflict has ended before The Hague Tribunal and a verdict is expected within weeks.
Milutinovic and the then Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic, the Army Chief of Staff Dragoljub Ojdanic, the Commander of the Third Army Nebojsa Pavkovic, the Commander of the Pristina Corps Vladimir Lazarevic and Serbia's top policeman in Kosovo, Sreten Lukic, are charged with forced deportations, murder and the persecution of ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1999 armed conflict in what was then Serbia's southern province of Kosovo.
Prosecutors at The Hague have demanded sentences of up to life imprisonment for the six at the end of their closing statements last week, two years after the trial opened. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12520
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Nerma Jelacic, the spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, said the verdict for Milan Milutinovic, Serbia's President during the rule of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, and the others, could be expected within weeks, but added that, due to the complexity of the case, it could also take months.
Milutinovic and the then Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic, the Army Chief of Staff Dragoljub Ojdanic, the Commander of the Third Army Nebojsa Pavkovic, the Commander of the Pristina Corps Vladimir Lazarevic and Serbia's top policeman in Kosovo, Sreten Lukic, are charged with forced deportations, murder and the persecution of ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1999 armed conflict in what was then Serbia's southern province of Kosovo.
Prosecutors at The Hague have demanded sentences of up to life imprisonment for the six at the end of their closing statements last week, two years after the trial opened. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12520
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