You'd expect someone to be crying or something when they're on a world court trial but Milosevic is going hardcore...
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has hit back at his accusers, saying Nato justified its 1999 conflict with Yugoslavia with an "ocean of lies".
During a robust defence at his war crimes trial in The Hague, he showed gruesome photographs of civilians killed by Nato bombs, and screened footage which alleged that reports of Serb massacres of Kosovo Albanians were fabricated.
Mr Milosevic said all he had done during the Kosovo conflict had been to fight terrorism in his own country - just as the US had done "on the other side of the world".
Mr Milosevic tried to portrary the proceedings as a trial of the whole of Serbia and all those Serbs who supported him and support him to this day.
"The whole world knows this is a political trial," he told the court, saying he was pitted against an enormous apparatus and a vast media structure, with only a public telephone in prison to conduct his defence.
"You want me to swim a 100-metre race with my legs and hands tied," he said this his first formal defence speech, which has continued for more than four hours.
Mr Milosevic was responding to the prosecution case against him, presented during the first two days of the trial.
He is expected to continue his opening statement on Friday.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has hit back at his accusers, saying Nato justified its 1999 conflict with Yugoslavia with an "ocean of lies".
During a robust defence at his war crimes trial in The Hague, he showed gruesome photographs of civilians killed by Nato bombs, and screened footage which alleged that reports of Serb massacres of Kosovo Albanians were fabricated.
Mr Milosevic said all he had done during the Kosovo conflict had been to fight terrorism in his own country - just as the US had done "on the other side of the world".
Mr Milosevic tried to portrary the proceedings as a trial of the whole of Serbia and all those Serbs who supported him and support him to this day.
"The whole world knows this is a political trial," he told the court, saying he was pitted against an enormous apparatus and a vast media structure, with only a public telephone in prison to conduct his defence.
"You want me to swim a 100-metre race with my legs and hands tied," he said this his first formal defence speech, which has continued for more than four hours.
Mr Milosevic was responding to the prosecution case against him, presented during the first two days of the trial.
He is expected to continue his opening statement on Friday.
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Link to the full story. Your thoughts?
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