Hague detainees "do not feel safe" after Milosevic's death - Serbian paper
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - March 15, 2006, Wednesday

Text of report by Montenegrin Mina news agency on 15 March

The Hague: Yesterday, the Hague [tribunal] detainees of all nationalities began a protest in the Scheveningen detention unit. They want a special commission to check the conditions in which they live and the level of health care.

According to the Glas Javnosti paper [from Serbia], they want the United Nations Security Council, which set up the international court for war crimes, to form an independent commission which will supervise the conditions in Scheveningen.

Following Slobodan Milosevic's death, the Hague detainees do not feel safe, the paper's sources say.

"The detainees have doubts about the circumstances in which Milosevic died and they fear for their safety. They are all under stress and in shock due to his death."

"Many of them suspect that they are being poisoned," a well-informed source said, not excluding the possibility of the detainees starting a hunger strike.

[Former Croatian Serb leader] Milan Martic requested two days ago that his trial be postponed. He said that he was under stress and that he was not well enough for the trial.

"I am ill. I want a doctor to examine me and I want my food to be tested," Martic said.

Source: Mina news agency, Podgorica, in Serbian 0849 gmt 15 Mar 06

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