Milosevic attacks motives of UN War Crimes Tribunal

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has accused the United Nations of conducting an "evil and hostile attack" against him by charging him with crimes against humanity in the country he once ruled.

Milosevic said the goal of his actions during the Balkan Wars was to protect Serbs in breakaway republics and to find peace as quickly as possible. He described the charges against him as "abnormal and nonsensical" and said his humiliation before the UN War Crimes Tribunal is designed to justify crimes committed against Serbs. Putting him on trial was "an attempt to turn the victim into the culprit", he said.