Croatian Serb Appears Before U.N. Tribunal
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Former rebel Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic entered no plea to counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at his first appearance before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Babic, 47, was charged this month with war crimes and crimes against humanity for killing and persecuting non-Serbs in an “ethnic cleansing” campaign in the early 1990s.
He became president of Croatia’s self-declared rebel Serb republic of Krajina as the collapse of the former Yugoslavia prompted Serb nationalists to fight for territory in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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