BBC Story/Clark's Milosevic testimony--"extremely impt"-- prosecutors

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Last Updated: Thursday, 18 December, 2003, 14:31 GMT

Milosevic 'knew Srebrenica plan'

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A transcript of Mr Clark's closed-door evidence was published on Thursday.

Mr Milosevic, facing 66 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, said Mr Clark was lying.

Now a US presidential candidate, the retired general directed Nato's bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999.

Mr Clark was a member of the US team that helped negotiate the 1995 peace agreement ending the Bosnian war.

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More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb troops in Srebrenica in 1995 before the peace deal.

Prosecution spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said Mr Clark's testimony was "extremely important" as it was the most direct evidence so far of Mr Milosevic's advance knowledge in the massacre.

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Mr Clark spent more than 100 hours of meetings over four years with Mr Milosevic during the Balkan wars.

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