HUMAN RIGHTS:
Statistical Analysis Provides Key Links in Milosevic Trial
Richard Stone
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS--Science took center stage last week in the war-crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia's president and commander of its armed forces during the conflagrations in the Balkans in the 1990s. Patrick Ball, a statistician with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science), testified that evidence his team has gathered is consistent with the hypothesis that Yugoslav forces conducted a systematic campaign of killings and expulsions of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in the spring of 1999.