Milosevic Trial Public Archive
September 2005
(note: transcript links are activated as the ICTY uploads them. There is usually a few weeks delay in this process)
Friday, September 30th - 09:00 - 13:45 Janicevic continues his testimony. He discusses KLA activities in Racak to try to prove that the VJ did not shell the village. Rather, he states, the police fought a battle against the KLA in an anti-terrorist operation, and few, if any civilians were killed. Also, a videotape of Paddy Ashdown with KLA members and Albanians is shown and discussed. / transcript
Thursday, September 29th - 09:00 - 13:45 Milosevic re-examines Bozidar Delic. A video of Paddy Ashdown with uniformed KLA members is shown. Delic spends much time refuting claims from Ashdown’s March 15, 2002 testimony. After Delic’s testimony, Bogoljub Janicevic, former chief of the Urosevac SUP, resumes his examination-in-chief. He mostly discusses the disciplining of Serbian police officers when they committed crimes. / transcript
Wednesday, September 28th - 09:00 - 13:45 General Delic is re-cross-examined. Much of the day is spent discussing Paddy Ashdown’s location in the mountains when he witnessed certain things. Initially, he said he was in Albania, but he has corrected himself and said he was in Yugoslavia. The prosecution and Delic argue over his testimony. / transcript
Thursday, September 22nd - 09:00 - 13:45 Bogoljub Janicevic continues his testimony. He discusses the history of repression in Kosovo. He also speaks of the KLA’s plans to threated Kosovo’s Albanian population. He spends most of the day explaining the structure and composition of the KLA. / transcript
Wednesday, September 21st - 09:00 - 13:45 The re-examination of General Bozidar Delic continues with Delic discussing the supposed impossibility of Paddy Ashdown’s March 2002 testimony. Much of the day is spent discussing ties between the KLA and NATO. Next, Col. Bogoljub Janicevic, a Kosovo-Serb who was the chief of the Urosevac and Pristina SUPs, is called to the stand. He discusses Albanian Nationalism in Kosovo dating back to the late sixties. / transcript
Tuesday, September 20th - 09:00 - 13:45 Vojislav Seselj begins his re-examination. Milosevic and Seselj scoff at the concept of a joint criminal enterprise. They also try to prove that pre-war propaganda distributed by Croats and the Bosnian-Muslims was the true reason for Serbian agitation. Afterwards, General Bozidar Delic is called to the stand to finish his re-examination. He continues to rebuke Paddy Ashdowns testimony from March 2002. Also discussed is the so-called “Atlantic Brigade”, a group of Americans fighting with the KLA. / transcript
Friday, September 16th - 09:00 - 13:45 / transcript
Thursday, September 15th - 09:00 - 13:45 The cross-examination of Seselj continues. The prosecution shows more from the BBC documentary “The Death of Yugoslavia” and Seselj continues to explain his lies. The day ends discussing the videotape of the Skorpians executing Srebrenica Muslims near Trnovo. Seselj claims that the tape was doctored. / transcript
Wednesday, September 14 - 09:00 - 13:45 Vojislav Seselj’s cross-examination continues. Seselj discusses speeches he made in the mid-ninties when he and Milosevic were in political conflict. Seselj explains that he lied in many of those speeches in order to damage Milosevic politically and that the prosecution should not rely on those speeches. / transcript
Wednesday, September 7 - 09:00 - 13:45 The cross-examination of Vojislav Seselj continues. The prosecution shows clips from the video “The Death of Yugoslavia”. Seselj claims that he lied in the documentary for political reasons and testifies that Milosevic never sent weapons to or commanded troops in Bosnia or Croatia. / transcript
Tuesday, September 6 - 09:00 - 13:45 Milosevic completes his examination-in-chief of Vojuslav Seselj, ending with a Clinton interview on a Dutch television station. Following Milosevic’s examination, Nice begins his cross-examination of Seselj, initially concentrating on statements Seselj had made against the tribunal. The cross-examination is scheduled to continue tomorrow. / transcript
Monday, September 5 - 14:15-19:00 Seselj’s testimony enters its eighth day. He testifies about one occasion when he was in combat in Grbavica during the war, and he opened fire at Muslims building a trench to by-pass the Bosnian-Serb lines. Most of the day is spent reviewing incidents listed in the Bosnian portion of the indictment. / transcript
Apologies, following a technical problem with the ICTY's video delay unit, the English video is without audio during the first hour. **** This problem has now been corrected. Audio is available ****
Thursday, September 1 - 09:00 - 13:45 Seselj is examined. He mainly discusses Milosevic’s relationship with the Yugoslav People’s Army and the limits of his power. Various examples of massacres, including those at Bosanski Broad, Kupres, and the Ovcara farm, are discussed and Seselj tries to explain them from his perspective. / transcript
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