Acquitted ex-president returns home to Serbia

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: jpos

Serbia's former President Milan Milutinovic returned to the country Friday after being acquitted by a UN court of war crimes in Kosovo.

"I am very pleased to be back in Serbia and my Belgrade," a smiling Milutinovic told reporters at Belgrade airport as he arrived on a regular flight from Amsterdam.

He thanked his family, friends, lawyers and "everybody who believed in my innocence." He refused to comment further.


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[rpannier]

1. I think he was guilty

But I was not present at the trial and the verdict is in

Hopefully, he'll never be heard from again

[riverdeep]

2. No details on why in the article.

From 'Butcher of Belgrade' to a free man.