[L-I] Milosevic and Walker clash in court

AFP. 12 June 2002. Milosevic and Walker clash in court over Racak
massacre.

THE HAGUE -- Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and US
observer William Walker who led the international verification mission
(KVM) during the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo, clashed in court Wednesday
over their opposing explanations for the massacre in Racak.

Walker said Milosevic's claim that the killings in Racak were staged by
rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was "ludicrous."

The former Yugoslav president has repeatedly said during his trial that
the 45 Albanian men found dead in Racak on January 15th, 1999, were in
fact KLA fighters killed in regular battle dressed up to look like
civilians with the intention of implicated the Serb forces in a
massacre.

Walker, a former US ambassador, headed the KVM sent by the Organisation
for Cooperation and Security in Europe to monitor a cease fire agreed on
by Milosevic and US envoy Richard Holbrooke in October 1998.

During his cross examination of the witness, Milosevic showed several
photographs of bodies found in Racak where no bloodstains appeared to be
visible on the ground.

The former president, who is representing himself, also showed two
pictures apparently of the same corpse, one showing blood and the other
without blood stains.

"This scene has been staged or rigged," Milosevic charged.



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