Milosevic Barred From Electioneering From Jail
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Slobodan Milosevic was banned by The Hague war crimes tribunal from campaigning in Serbia’s election after taping a broadcast in his jail cell.
The ex-Yugoslav president, charged with war crimes in the Balkans in the 1990s, broke tribunal rules by recording a speech for Belgrade’s Radio S. Milosevic tops the election list of his Socialist Party of Serbia though he has been jailed in the Netherlands since 2001.
The court said it feared that campaigning by war crimes suspects could undermine its mandate to maintain peace in the former Yugoslavia.
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