In an interview for a Croatian radio station (Obiteljski Radio) on Tuesday, Mesic commented on the case of Croatian general Ante Gotovina, saying he was against the creation of myths.
"Myths are being created now while we should have made heroes during the war, because we had them then, but unfortunately that did not happen," Mesic said wondering what made Gotovina the only person without whom there would be no Croatia.
The operation aimed at liberating Serb-held areas was launched from 270 directions. The operation from one of the directions was led by Gotovina, Mesic said, adding that General Gotovina went on his honeymoon during the most heated battle.
The Croatian president also commented on the latest developments in the case of Ratko Mladic, whom the ICTY indicted along with his political boss Radovan Karadzic in 1995 for genocide during a 43-month siege of Sarajevo, which claimed 12,000 lives, war crimes in eastern and north-western Bosnia and for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of 8,000 unarmed Muslims at Srebrenica.
"Ratko Mladic, the biggest criminal after World War II, is now under control and his destiny is sealed," Mesic told Obiteljski Radio.
Mesic said that Mladic was now negotiating so as to financially secure.