RSK
05-16-2005, 03:01 PM
Croats Protest Indictment Changes
Relations between Croatia and the Hague have soured over a controversial proposal to broaden “Operation Storm” indictment.
By Goran Jungvirth in Zagreb (TU No 406, 13-May-05)
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Relations between Zagreb and the Hague tribunal chilled this week after prosecutors asked the court to amend the indictment against Croatian generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac to include the names of two high-ranking army officers and an unspecific number of unnamed Croatian government and security officials.
Markac and Cermak are charged with atrocities against Serbs during the 1995 war in Croatia. They are also accused of being part of a joint criminal enterprise to cleanse ethnic Serbs out of parts of Croatia.
Other members included Croat fugitive General Ante Gotovina, as well as late Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and late defence minister Gojko Šušak.
The amended indictment adds two late chiefs of the Croatian General Staff, Janko Bobetko and Zvonimir Cervenko, as well as unnamed members of the Croatian government, defence ministry, internal affairs ministry, the ruling Croatian Democratic Union and local authorities. Although named as members of a criminal enterprise, they have not been indicted.
During Operation Storm and its aftermath, Croatian forces attacked and took control of Serb-occupied towns and villages in the Knin Krajina region. Cermak and Markac are accused - either alone or in concert with the others named on the indictment - of planning, ordering, committing and aiding and abetting the persecution of the Krajina Serbs. They deny all the charges.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_406_3_eng.txt
Relations between Croatia and the Hague have soured over a controversial proposal to broaden “Operation Storm” indictment.
By Goran Jungvirth in Zagreb (TU No 406, 13-May-05)
http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2001/08/07/_slike/Oluja.jpg
Relations between Zagreb and the Hague tribunal chilled this week after prosecutors asked the court to amend the indictment against Croatian generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac to include the names of two high-ranking army officers and an unspecific number of unnamed Croatian government and security officials.
Markac and Cermak are charged with atrocities against Serbs during the 1995 war in Croatia. They are also accused of being part of a joint criminal enterprise to cleanse ethnic Serbs out of parts of Croatia.
Other members included Croat fugitive General Ante Gotovina, as well as late Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and late defence minister Gojko Šušak.
The amended indictment adds two late chiefs of the Croatian General Staff, Janko Bobetko and Zvonimir Cervenko, as well as unnamed members of the Croatian government, defence ministry, internal affairs ministry, the ruling Croatian Democratic Union and local authorities. Although named as members of a criminal enterprise, they have not been indicted.
During Operation Storm and its aftermath, Croatian forces attacked and took control of Serb-occupied towns and villages in the Knin Krajina region. Cermak and Markac are accused - either alone or in concert with the others named on the indictment - of planning, ordering, committing and aiding and abetting the persecution of the Krajina Serbs. They deny all the charges.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_406_3_eng.txt