Milosevic fails to intimidate Irish witness

FORMER Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's bullying tactics may have terrorised opponents in the past but he was no match for a high-ranking Irish army officer at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague yesterday.

Colonel Colm Doyle, 56, who led the EU monitoring mission in Bosnia in 1991 and 1992, came under heavy cross-examination from Milosevic on the circumstances of a meeting that took place between them as Serbian plans for mass ethnic cleansing were under way.

It was clear Milosovic was trying to use him as a conduit to give his views to the Bosnian peace conference, Col Doyle told judges.