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Milosevic denies control over paramilitary unit shown killing Bosnians in video David Shucosky at 10:12 AM ET [JURIST] Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] denied at his trial on Wednesday that he was in charge of the unit shown killing six Bosnian Muslim youths [JURIST report] in a gruesome video that led to the arrest [JURIST report] of eight soldiers. Milosevic, under cross examination before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, called the video a "compilation" and said it did not prove the victims were from Srebrenica [BBC timeline], where almost 8,000 people were killed in the summer of 1995. Linking Milosevic and his troops to the Srebrenica massacre is vital to the prosecution's genocide case. AP has more. Link | 
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