Milosevic ignored our warnings, says human rights chief

A US human rights group informed Slobodan Milosevic of abuses committed by Serbs in Croatia in the early 1990s but he did nothing to prevent or punish them, activist Jeri Laber told the former Yugoslav president’s war crimes trial today.

Milosevic, who is conducting his own defence before the UN court in The Hague, said he had no control over Serbs in Croatia at the time and questioned the competence of Laber’s group, Helsinki Watch.