Continued illness causes further delay in Milosevic war crimes trial

<br>THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ The trial of Slobodan Milosevic will not resume for two weeks to allow the former Yugoslav leader to recover from the flu, the war crimes tribunal said Monday. <br><br>Tribunal

Monday, March 25th 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ The trial of Slobodan Milosevic will not resume for two weeks to allow the former Yugoslav leader to recover from the flu, the war crimes tribunal said Monday.

Tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said Milosevic was being regularly examined by the doctor of the U.N. detention unit in Scheveningen outside The Hague, and was suffering ``nothing more serious than the flu.''

The disruption meant the trial, which began Feb. 12, will be well behind schedule when it resumes April 8. It was already lagging by several days because of Milosevic's lengthy cross-examination of prosecution witnesses.

The trial was adjourned March 18 after Milosevic became ill. It was already scheduled for a one-week recess in the first week of April.

Milosevic last appeared in court March 15, when British politician Paddy Ashdown testified that he had warned the then Yugoslav president in 1998 that he was liable to be charged with war crimes for his army's activities in Kosovo.

Milosevic has been indicted for crimes in Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia.