Witness snubs hold up Milosevic's defence

Just two days into their attempts to defend Slobodan Milosevic, British lawyers appointed to represent the former Yugoslav leader said that witnesses are refusing to testify because the court will not let him present his own case.

Milosevic, on trial for alleged genocide and other war crimes during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, also has refused to work with – or even meet – the two barristers assigned to his defence.