Milosevic to continue defence at war crimes trial

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who harshly rejects United Nations allegations that he ordered murders and deportations during the Balkan wars, was today to continue presenting his own defence at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague.

During his first day of opening comments yesterday, the ousted leader blamed the West for a decade of death and destruction in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. He said ‘‘enemies’’ outside Yugoslavia had attempted to bomb his nation ‘‘back to the Stone Age’’.