Milosevic’s Trial Resumes After Break

The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resumed after a month’s recess with a man’s testimony that he saw Serbian troops gun down at least 39 ethnic Albanians.

Sadik Xhemajli told the court in The Hague that he watched with binoculars from a nearby hill as Serbian soldiers separated 127 men from a group of unarmed civilians in a field near the Kosovo village of Izbica on March 28, 1999. Some were shot, while the crippled and elderly were burned alive, he said.

Milosevic, who is acting as his own defense attorney, dismissed the claims as “impossible.”