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"Weighing the Evidence: Lessons from the Milosevic Trial

Weighing the Evidence

Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic Trial

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Executive Summary

Introduction

Background

Court Proceedings

Evidence

Financial Assistance

Material Support

Arming of Bosnian and Croatian Serbs

JNA support

Serbian Ministry of Defense

Serbian Ministry of the Interior

Association of Serbs and Emigrants of Serbia

1992 formation of the SVK and VRS

Continuing supply of ammunition and other military materials

Personnel

Transfer of JNA staff

Continuing Yugoslav army links to Serb forces in Bosnia: The 30th and 40th Personnel Centers

Salaries and Benefits

Promotions

Reservists

Trial Procedure

Scope of the Indictments

Duration and scope of the case

Joinder

Counts /Crime scenes

Conduct of Proceedings

Start of trial

Duration of the case

Time controls

Written testimony

Management of proceedings with a pro se defendant

Self-Representation

Use of amici curiae

Lessons Learned

Acknowledgements

December 2006 Volume 18, No. 10(D)