Former Yugoslav presidents face off

TWO former Yugoslav presidents faced off at a UN war crimes tribunal yesterday, with genocide suspect Slobodan Milosevic arguing that Croatian leader Stipe Mesic was the real criminal.

Former Yugoslav presidents face off
Thu, 03 Oct, 2002 - 01:00

Milosevic, defending himself against charges of genocide in Bosnia and war crimes in Croatia, laughed as he cross-examined Mesic, the last president of a united Yugoslavia in 1991.

He accused him of having a "criminal past" and of ordering the murder of two Serbs as town mayor in the 1970s.

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