Prosecution witness: 'Milosevic ordered that no atrocities should be carried out.'

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

It looks as if one of the key prosecution witnesses in the Milosevic trial
has competely reverted his testimony under cross-examination from Milosevic.

Here is the key passage from the BBC report:

Friday, 26 July, 2002, 11:16 GMT 12:16 UK
Milosevic confronts key witness
Slobodan Milosevic is cross-examining Serbia's former secret police chief,
who has said the former Yugoslav president knew about alleged atrocities
being carried out by his security forces in Kosovo.
Rade Markovic told the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague that
Mr Milosevic had been briefed daily on the activities of the army and police
in Kosovo.
[...]
He said Mr Milosevic had been the effective boss of state security
operations against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo.
But on Friday, in reply to Mr Milosevic's questions, he said the former
president had acted within the scope of the law, ordering that no atrocities
should be carried out.

Full text:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2152747.stm



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