BEIJING: Six Chinese dissidents, including two high profile opponents of the state, have been detained in a police crackdown on the fledgling China Democracy Party, sources said on Tuesday. Police detained Xu Wenli in Beijing and Qin Yongmin in Wuhan, central China, late Monday, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre on Human Rights and the Democratic Movement in China said in a statement. The two veterans of China's dissident movement have been singled out by police for their repeated demands to have the China Democracy Party legally recognised by local authorities since its launch last July. Xu Wenli's wife saidon Monday her husband had not yet been released and she expected he would be held longer than previous detentions. ``Police specified that Xu was being `detained' and not just `questioned,'' He Xintong said. ``They told him that he was a "suspect" but did not specify a crime''. Under Chinese law, suspects may be detained for 30 days before being charged with any crime.

THE HAGUE: The self-styled `Serb Adolf' Hitler, Goran Jelisic, went on trial before the UN war crimes court on Monday accused of the genocide of Bosnian Muslims and Croats. Prosecutor Terree Bowers accused the Bosnian Serb of actively and enthusiastically taking part in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims from the northern Bosnian town of Brcko and the Luka detention camp in May 1992. ``Goran Jelisic killed a high number of people during his genocidal spree in Brcko,'' he told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Jelisic, 30, pleaded guilty last month to murdering 12 Bosnian Muslims and Croats but said hewas innocent of the genocide charge, believing his acts were not part of a systematic plan to exterminate Bosnian Muslims.