Ashdown 'warned Milosevic about Kosovo war crimes'

Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of the British Liberal Democrats, has told the UN War Crimes Tribunal that he warned Slobodan Milosevic in 1998 to stop the Serb campaign in Kosovo of face trial for crimes against humanity.

Mr Ashdown said he met Mr Milosevic in September 1998, the day after he witnessed the Yugoslav army offensive in Kosovo's Suva Reka Valley.