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29th April: Secret witness "C-48" general manager of the Royal nightclub and casino in Novi Sad, who remembers hearing Slobodan Milosevic talk about a plan for a Greater Serbia. 6th May: Secret witness "B-1461" on atrocities of Serb paramilitaries, the "yellow wasps" in Zvornik, Eastern Bosnia. 9th/19th May: Fadil Banjanovic, Banjanovic is a refugee from Zvornik, a Muslim representative in the parliament of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Serb Republic, and active in trying to secure the return of Muslim refugees to the Serb territories of B-H. Wilcoxson stresses his professed friendship with the Bosnian Muslim leader, himself accused of war crimes, Nasir Oric. Also Bruno Delabros, French specialist in analysing propaganda. 21st May: Milan Kucan, former President of Slovenia, on Milosevic's opposition, 1989-90, to futher autonomy for the constituent parts of Yugoslavia. 22nd May: Secret witness, "B-161", Serb policeman in Bosnia. Cross examined by Milosevic. On atrocities around Zvornik and relations between Arkan and the Jugoslav army, cApril 1992. with some evidence that massacre at Srebrenica, 1995, was planned beforehand. 23rd May: Dr Ivan Kristan, constitutional expert, on legality of reform of constitution of Kosovo in 1989. The court judged that his evidence could not be received. 26th May: Renaud de la Brosse on Serb use of propaganda. Cross examined by Milosevic. 29th May: Secret witness "B-1775", 'a mortician from Zvornik who had the unpleasant task of collecting the dead bodies, and bringing them back to the morgue to undergo examination by pathologists.' Secret witness "B-1455" a Bosnian Muslim who suffered at the hands of Serb paramilitaries in May 1992. 2nd June: Two secret witnesses, "B-1455" and "B-1098" on mass execution near Zvornik in 1992. 3rd June: Milosevic and the amicus Curiae, Tapuskovic, cross examine B-1098. Secret witness "C-47", former member of the Serbian Radical Party (Vojislav Seselj's party) and Chetnik volunteer. In a 'motion hearing' the Prosecutor compains about lack of access to the state archives of Serbia-Montenegro. 4th June: C-47 contd. Cross-examination by Milosevic, casting doubt on his knowledge of the organisation and history of the Serb Radical Party. * 5th June: Secret witness, "B-24". Member of the Serb crisis staff in Zvornik. Includes a chronology of events in Zvornik leading up to the intervention of Arkan's Serb Volunteer Guard and others in April 1992. Cross examination by Milosevic. 10th June: Completion of Milosevic's cross-examination of C-47. Secret witness, "C-17, on camp near Mostar being used as a base for Chetnik volunteer units and the 'Red Berets'. 11th June: Milosevic cross examines C-17, particularly on the supposed presence of the Jugoslav National Army in Mostar after May 19th (when they were ordered to withdraw). 12th-16th June: Osman Selak arguing that 'the VJ (FRY Army) was in direct command over the VRS (Army of Republika Srpska)' [Selak, a Muslim, was formerly a colonel in the Jugoslav National Army]. Dr Budimir Babovic, a political scientist from Montenegro [and former head of Interpol in Belgrade], author of a book on Milosevic's control of the Serb police. Secret witness, "B-1047", who survived an attempted execution by men loyal to Arkan. *17th - 19th June: Zoran Lilic, 'the President of the Serbian National Assembly, the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.' On Milosevic's influence over Serbs in Coratia and Bosnia; his reaction to the events surrounding the fall of Srebrenica; attitudes to the civilian population in Kosovo; US efforts to strengthen the Kosovo Liberation Army; Milosevic's support for the peace plans for Bosnia devised by Cyrus Vance and others; the Cutilero Plan which might have averted the Bosnian conflict; Fikret Abdic, pro-Serb Muslim leader. Difficult to understand from this account why Lilic was called as a prosecution witness. 24th-25th June: Michael Williams, the former advisor and spokesman of the former chief of the UN Mission to Bosnia Jasusi Akasi. 26th June:Peter Galbraith, US Ambassador to Croatia, 1993-8. Argues that Milosevic undermined 'Z-4 plan" that might have resolved situation in Krajina without the need for Operation Storm (which Galbraith authorised). Milosevic establishes that Galbraith also authorised arms shipments to Mulsims in Bosnia. Account in CIJ. 27th June: Suad Dasfiuc, Muslim survivor of massacre in village near Vitkovici, Bratunac, Bosnia, May 1992. 30th June: Retired Croatian Jugoslav army General Imra Agotic. On process by which the JNA became Serb-orientated. 11th July: Secret witness, "B-1120", member of the main board of the Muslim Social Democratic Alliance in Foca. "C-1171", member of ZNG (Croatian National Guard Corps) in Vukovar. 22nd July: Secret witness, "B-127". Muslim former member of JNA who joined the army of the Bosnian Serb Republic (VRS). On question if the VRS was controlled by the VJ (successor to the JNA). Cross examination by Milosevic. 23rd July: Secret witness, "B-83". Mostly in closed session. In open session B-83 accuses the prosecution of distorting his evidence.
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