The proceedings today began with the conclusion of Slobodan Milosevic's cross-examination of Colm Doyle. President Milosevic and the Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic both asked Doyle a number of questions regarding reports of events that the Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie (UN Commander in Bosnia) had sent to Lt Gen Satish Nambiar at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Amazingly, Doyle who headed the European Community's observation mission in Bosnia had no idea about any of the numerous events that Milosevic and Tapuskovic asked him about on the basis of MacKenzie's reports, all of which had to do with Muslim attacks and provocations against Serbs.

A humorous event came when Milosevic asked Doyle whether he was aware of the position that the US State Department and the European Parliament (which is an organ of the EC) took in 1991. That position was that the SFRY should remain one single unified state and that the secessionist republics should not be recognized. Doyle confirmed that he was aware that that was the position which was taken.

Milosevic then asked Doyle how come the US and the EC recognized the secessionists anyway, in spite of their publicly stated position. Doyle said that he didn't know, and that he didn't ask. Milosevic asked Doyle if he considered it to be hypocritical for the US and the EC to say one thing and then do exactly the opposite. Before Doyle could answer the question, the so-called "jugde" May jumped in and instructed Doyle that he didn't have to answer the question.

It was obvious from Doyle's testimony that the Muslims had weapons from the outset of the war. The Muslims were not unarmed, like they are fond of claiming.

The beginning of the war came when the Muslims, after announcing the results of their illegal referendum on succession, famously attacked a Serb wedding party in Sarajevo, killing the groom on the steps of the Orthodox Church. Doyle said that after that attack, tensions increased, and the Serbs erected barricades in Sarajevo, which the Muslims then fired upon (with the weapons that they claim never to have had).

After Doyle was concluded the witness Stepjan Kraljevic was called. Kraljevic was a municipal official from the town of Ilok, Croatia. Kraljevic painted a picture where the JNA, for no reason, expelled the population of Ilok. But, when Milosevic cross-examined Kraljevic it became obvious that this witness was given to exaggeration.

Milosevic showed an agreement that Kraljevic and others from Ilok had signed with the JNA. The agreement stated that the JNA would do its best to protect all people who wished to remain in Ilok, but that the JNA would also help the people who wished to leave Ilok to leave safely. Ilok is near to Vukovar and there was heavy fighting in the area, so there were people who wanted to leave, in fact the JNA reached the agreement because the citizens requested it.

The witness, on the other hand, tried to present this agreement by the JNA to protect people if they wished to leave the town as a sort of expulsion by the JNA.

The witness viewed the JNA's demand that the T.O. should turn over its weapons in accordance with the decision of the SFRY presidency as a sort of provocation by the JNA, even though the witness admitted that this demand only came after the Ilok police (who issued the T.O. their weapons in the first place) fired on and destroyed a JNA tank with a rocket launcher. But then again the witness did not consider the JNA to be the legal armed force of the SFRY in 1991.

Mr. Kraljevic also produced a document called "Civilian Victims of the Homeland War" which he presented as some sort of evidence against Milosevic. In this document of his numerous "victims" had their cause of death listed as things such as traffic accidents and suicide. So now I guess, according to this witness, if somebody gets into a car wreck or decides to kill themselves that is Milosevic's fault.

The next witness was a secret witness code named "C-1175." "C-1175" claimed to have been a member of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj, Croatia. His claim was that he saw the T.O. there commit some crimes.

"C-1175" claimed that all of the members of the Serbian T.O. in Dalj were local Serbs and Hungarians. Since they were all locals, living in Croatia, it is clear that Slobodan Milosevic, who was the president of Serbia, could not have had anything to do with whether or not the T.O. there committed any crimes there or not. So, even if the crimes that the witness enumerated really happened they still wouldn't have anything to do with Milosevic.

"C-1175's" testimony wasn't completely useless. "C-1175" did establish that it was the Croats and not the Serbs who initiated the clashes and ultimately started the war in Croatia.

"C-1175" testified that already in March and April of 1991 the Croats had formed squads to terrorize Serbs and carryout so-called "silent liquidations." "C-1175" also testified that the Croats perpetrated numerous crimes on Serb property.

"C-1175" testified that before the war the Croatian police were arresting Serbs without cause and taking them away and beating them up."C-1175" should be concluded tomorrow. The troika has given President Milosevic 45 more minutes to complete his cross-examination.

Sequence of Events - AUGUST 27, 2003

1. President Milosevic concluded his cross-examination of Colm Doyle.

2. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Colm Doyle.

3. Prosecutor Nice re-examined Colm Doyle.

5. Prosecutor Saxon called Stepjan Kraljevic and examined him.

6. President Milosevic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.

7. Amicus Curiae Tapuskovic cross-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.

8. Prosecutor Saxon re-examined Stepjan Kraljevic.

9. Prosecutor Uertz-Retzlaff called the secret witness "C-1175" and examined him.

10. President Milosevic began his cross-examination of the secret witness "C-1175."