Milosevic trial delayed again due to defence row

Judges in Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial ordered a one-month postponement in proceedings today to give the former Yugoslav president’s court-assigned lawyers time to prepare a defence case.

At least 20 of Milosevic’s witnesses, including high-level foreign politicians, have refused to show up in court since the judges limited Milosevic’s ability to mount his own defence, British barrister Steven Kay told the court in The Hague.

The court rejected Mr Kay’s request to give Milosevic the first right to question witness in the courtroom and to let him lead his own defence.