Milosevic Knew of Abuses, Court Told
THE NETHERLANDS
Slobodan Milosevic was sent reports cataloging human rights abuses by Serbs against Kosovo Albanians by post, fax and e-mail, according to testimony at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
As U.N. prosecutors sought to show that the former Yugoslav president knew or must have known of crimes his forces committed in Kosovo--a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia’s main republic--a human rights activist told of the horrors he witnessed and the reports he helped compile.
“I know for a fact that all our reports were sent to the accused,” said Fred Abraham, a former researcher for Human Rights Watch.
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