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AFP. 9 April 2002. Kosovo damaged heritage scrutinized at Milosevic's trial. THE HAGUE -- A Harvard professor and recognised expert on the Ottoman history of the Balkans told the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday that Serb forces had deliberately destroyed Islamic religious sites in Kosovo during the 1998-99 conflict. Andras Riedlmayer, a historian heading a team of experts that has conducted a survey of the destruction of Kosovo's cultural heritage, said more than a third of the province's some 600 mosques had been destroyed during the war. Theological schools, Islamic libraries and tombs were also damaged during Yugoslav military offensives against ethnic Albanian rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), he said. But Milosevic challenged Riedlmayer's testimony, charging that his findings were "instructed" by the UN tribunal, as parts of the report were added to the war crimes indictment against him last October. Milosevic listed names of sites allegedly destroyed during the NATO bombings. Presiding judge Richard May adjourned the hearing until Wednesday, calling on Milosevic to wind up his questioning "quite soon." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
