Mes: septiembre 2019

(AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The first witness in the long-awaited trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic testified Monday, 연천출장샵 describing a harrowing escape and scenes of horror in his home village — despite a motion by defense attorneys to adjourn the war crimes case for six months. U.N. judges said the prosecution could respond to this latest request for a delay on Tuesday, and allowed Elvedin Pasic to testify. Mladic faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He denies wrongdoing. Pasic testified about his family’s escape and separation as his village in northern Bosnia was being shelled in 1992 by Bosnian Serb troops under Mladic’s command. The Muslim, just 14 at the time, described weeks of wanderings with his mother, being turned away from village after village. Now 34 years old, Pasic spoke in English, carefully describing how he and his mother eventually circled back to their home village despite a warning from two Serb soldiers patrolling nearby who told them “there is nothing for you to go back to: your home is Turkey, this is Serbia.” He described his excitement as they entered the village anyway. He raced up a shortcut to his family house — only to find the Serb soldiers had told them the truth about there being little for them to return to. “The house was burned...

(CBS/AP) BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Syrian regime acknowledged for the first time Monday that it possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and said it will only use them in case of a foreign attack and never internally against its own citizens. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said the stockpiles are secure, in an apparent response to widespread international concerns that they could fall into the hands of the disparate bands of rebel forces fighting the government. “No chemical or biological weapons will ever be used, and I repeat, will never be used, during the crisis in Syria no matter what the developments inside Syria,” he said in conference broadcast on state TV. “All of these types of weapons are in storage and under security and the direct supervision of the Syrian armed forces and will never be used unless Syria is exposed to external aggression.” Syria is believed to have nerve agents as well as mustard gas, Scud missiles capable of delivering these lethal chemicals and a variety of advanced conventional arms, including anti-tank rockets and late-model portable anti-aircraft missiles. Syria’s biggest cities now seeing fightingSyrian rebels: We will “liberate” AleppoSyrian troops, rebels clash in city of Aleppo Makdissi also dismissed the latest overture from the Arab League, which offered Assad “safe exit” for him and his family if were to step down. “This is wishful thinking,” said...