Tuesday July 31 9:59 AM ET
Ex-U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark Sees Milosevic in Jail
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former U.S. attorney general
Ramsey Clark visited ousted Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic in a U.N. detention unit near The
Hague, a spokesman for the war crimes tribunal said on
Tuesday.
New York-based Clark, who condemned the 1999 NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia during the conflict over Kosovo,
had said Milosevic asked him through intermediaries
earlier this month to see him.
Tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said the visit lasted
``a couple of hours�� on Monday but that Clark was not
acting as Milosevic�s lawyer. ``He has not been given
power of attorney for Mr. Milosevic but he is giving
him legal advice,�� Landale said.
No details of Clark's visit were available.
The former Serbian strongman was arrested in Belgrade
last month and sent to The Hague to be tried for
crimes against humanity related to mass killings and
expulsions of Kosovo Albanians in 1999 by Serbian
forces under his command.
Milosevic has steadfastly refused to accept legal representation in a
show of contempt against the tribunal, and remains in solitary
confinement at his own request. Clark, 73, a campaigner for left-wing
and other causes often at odds with U.S. authorities, served as attorney
general under President Lyndon Johnson in the late 1960s. He had
previously visited Milosevic in Belgrade in 1999.
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