Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic has begun the final hours of a rambling opening defence statement before the UN war crimes tribunal at the Hague. Milosevic has already spent two days delivering his defiant opening speech at his trial in the Hague on alleged genocide and crimes against humanity charge. On Monday the initiative returns to the prosecuting lawyers, who are expected to call their witnesses, ranging from survivors of massacres to former allies of Milosevic and forensic investigators responsible for exhuming human remains from mass graves.