TRIAL OF SERBIAN WAR CRIMINAL MOMCILO PERISIC OPENS ON OCTOBER 1

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (September 18,2008) - Former Yugoslav Army Chief-of-Staff is heading back to The Hague where his war crimes trial opens on October 1.Serbian war criminal,General Momcilo Perisic, an ally-turned-foe of former president of the genocidal Serbia,Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic, faces charges of war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia,committed during the 1991-1995 Serbian aggressions against Bosnia and Croatia

Serbian war criminal Momcilo Perisic is suspected of involvement in the shelling of the Croatian capital Zagreb, the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the mass murder of up to 10,000 Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.

The charges include his help to the genocidal paramilitary fascist formations of the Serbians living in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1991-1995 Serbian aggressions against Bosnia and Croatia.

He voluntarily surrender to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, in March 2005.

He broke ties with Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic in 1998 when he warned him about the seriousness of NATO threats to bomb genocidal Serbia over its aggression against Kosovo.

The Hague Prosecution asked him to testify against former Serbian fascist leader Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial in 2004 but Perisic reportedly refused to link Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic to the genocide in Bosnia and never took the witness stand.

In 2005, The Hague tribunal indicted Serbian war criminal Momcilo Perisic. He was released in June 2005 pending trial.

Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic died in 2006 before his trial ended.
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