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OA ·The Daily Iowan- Iowa City, Iowa • Friday, August 31, 2001
WORW
Milosevic decries treatment
By Althony Deutsch
Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands­
Fonner Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic clashed with
U.N. judges at the war-crimes
tribunal Thursday, complaining
of discrimination and isolation
in prison. Minutes later, prosecutors
announced they will
indict him on charges of genocide.
During a combative 46-
minute hearing, the former
leader said he is so closely
watched that he has not been
able to speak in private to his
lawyers, his wife, or even to his
2~:1"year-old grandson, Marko,
who visited him on his 60th
birthday.
The hearing was the second
face-off this month between the
dictator who ran Yugoslavia
through 13 years and four wars,
and the rurnonsense British presiding
judge who repeatedly cut
Milosevic off and insisted his
courtroom would not be a platform
for political harangues.
Milosevic faces four counts of
war crimes for the murder and
persecution of ethnic Albanians
in Kosovo in 1999. He was transferred
to The Hague, Nether·
lands, by Serbian authorities on
June28.
Chief Prosecutor Carla Del
Ponte said she will file new
indictments against Milosevic
on Oct. 1 for alleged crimes in
Bosnia and Croatia in the first
half of the 1990s, including a
genocide charge for Bosnia.
Those indictments would be
combined with Kosovo charges
and would likely go to trial in
the autumn of 2002, she said.
"We will issue an indictment
for genocide in Bosnia, possibly
Croatia," Del Ponte told journalists.
In the courtroom, Milosevic
called the tribunal a "political
tool~ that lacked jurisdiction. He
charged the tribunal with discrimination
and keeping him
from meeting confidentially with
his family and legal advisers.
"Why I am isolated from the
persons who would like to see
me?" he asked Judge Richard
May. "I have the right to communicate."
Milosevic's tone was defiant,
yet more respectful than at his
first appearance in July, when
he told the judge, "that's your
problem" when asked if he wanted
the indictment read in court.
May gave Milosevic more freedom
to speak than before, but he
shut down Milosevic's microphone
when the defendant went
off into tangents. "We are not
going to listen to these political
arguments,~ he said.
May reminded Milosevic he
will be granted the right to confidentiality
with attorneys if he
appoints formal representation.
He agreed to "look into the matters"
of detention raised by the
former president.
Milosevic stuck to his lonedefense
approach and refused to
appoint an attorney.
The three-judge panel
appointed a "friend of the court"
to ensure Milosevic's legal rights
are protected. But it turned
down a request by the prosecution
to appoint a defense attorney,
saying it was Milosevic's
right to defend himself.
May said the appointed
lawrer would help prepare pretrial
motions, Cl'088-examine witr
neeses and make objections on
Milosevic's behalf.
In the former Yugoslavia this
week, investigators revealed at
least four common burial sites
across Serbia-graves that contain
the tangled remains of at
least 800 victims of a brutal
1998-99 crackdown on ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo.
May set a rough timetable for
the Kosovo trial, saying a trial
date will be set within the first
two months of next year. A final
pretrial hearing was scheduled
for Jan. 9, 2002, but the date
could be altered depending on
the progress of pretrial preparations.
The next status hearing
will be Oct. 29.
Milosevic protested that he
was barred from speaking to the
media. Last week was warned
he could lose prison privileges
after he telephoned a U.S. television
network to be interviewed.
Middle East truce hopes dim
By Mark Livia
Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Three
Palestinians were killed and 30
wounded Thursday in clashes
with Israeli troops, dimming
hopes that a limited U.S.·
backed truce in one Palestinian
town might spread to other
areas of the West Bank.
Also Thursday, an Israeli was
gunned down by a IWlSked man
in a Palestinian village as he sat
in a restaurant he had helped a
friend establish.
In contrast, calm prevailed in
the town ofBeitJalla after Israeli
forces withdrew just before day·
break Thursday, ending a twoday
operation aimed at stopping
Palestinian gunfire at a Jewish
neighborhood across a valley, in a
disputed part of Jerusalem. .
The Israelis pulled out following
an understanding negotiated
by Israeli Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres and Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat with the
involvement of Secretary of
State Colin Powell and European
diplomats.
In Washington, the State
Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said the United States
was encouraged by the Beit Jalla
understanding and that he hoped
it would lead to security cooperation
between the two sides.
In the divided West Bank city
ofHebron, however, street battles
erupted after the funeral of an
officer in Force 17, an elite unit of
Arafat's secUrity forces, who was
killed in a clash Wednesday.
Gunmen took cover behind
buildings and fired at Israeli
tanks in the Israel-controlled
sector of Hebron, drawing
return fire. A 50-year-old Palestinian
doctor was shot and
killed as he ran to retrieve his
car. Palestinians said he was
J)ot involved in the fighting.
The Israeli military aaid the
e.ltchanges of fire went on
throughout the day. They denied
a Palestinian assertion that an
Israeli tank entered the Palestinian
section of the city. Most of
Hebron was handed over to
Palestinian control in 1997, but
Israel still controls the center,
where about 500 Jewish settlers
live in three enclaves among tens
of thousands of Palestinians.
Another firelight broke out in
the northern part of the West
Bank. One Palestinian was
killed and nine wounded in the
clash, Palestinian doctors said.
Earlier, Israeli troops shot
and wounded two Palestinians
near the camp. Palestinians
said they were members of the
radical Islamic Jihad and that
Israel had targeted them for
killing. The Israeli military
would not confirm this, saying
only that they were planting a
bomb.
Underpopulated
Australia fights to kaap
out asyl1111 Sllklll
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -
Australia Is roughly the size of the
continental United States, with a population
of only 19 million, and It has a
long tradition of Immigration, dating
to the 18th century, when It was used
as a dumping ground for boatloads of
British criminals.
So why Is this country, one of the
richest In the Asia-Pacific region,
fighting so hard to keep out one cargo
ship of refugees?
Prime Minister John Howard
sparked a diplomatic wrangle with
Norway and Indonesia after refusing a
Norwegian ship permission to enter
Australian waters with Its cargo of
about 460 refugees, mostly Afghans,
who were picked up Monday from a
sinking I ndoneslan ferry.
"We simply cannot allow a situation
to develop where Australia Is seen
around the world as a country of easy
destination" for asylum seekers,
Howard said in explaining his decision.
In May, the government estimated
the cost of dealing with unauthorized
arrivills would reach $127 million a
year by 2002-()3.
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stance, the opposition labor Party Ill
accused him of playing up to VOIII1
who are Increasingly unhapP'J aboll
the rising tide of asylum seellll
Elections will take place In Novemllr
or December, and Howard Is ~
Labor In most major opinion pols.
Surveys of people caMinO
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the current crlslsllndlcate that ,_
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government also has been stron;, ~
criticized by human-rights groups ir
Its harsh treatment of refugee seirlll
who are detained here in detniln
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