Lawyers Say Milosevic Expects No Justice on His Trial

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Lawyers Say Milosevic Expects No Justice on His Trial

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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic does not expect justice though he is psychologically and physically fit for his trial starting on Tuesday at the United Nations-sponsored international criminal tribunal in The Hague, his legal advisers said Sunday.

According to reports from The Hague, Belgrade lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic said Milosevic, charged by the prosecution with genocide and crimes against humanity during regional wars in the 1990s, would not change his defiant defense strategy.

"I visited Milosevic together with his wife Mirjana Markovic last week and he feels very good. His mental and physical conditions are very good and he is completely prepared for the trial," Ognjanovic told reporters in The Hague. The lawyer has been in the Dutch city for the last 10 days.

Milosevic, handed over by Yugoslavia's Serbian authorities to the Hague court last June, stands accused of charges including genocide in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war and crimes against humanity in Croatia in 1991-1992 and in Kosovo in 1999.

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