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Proclaiming Storm a criminal enterprise is historical revisionism - Seks

ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks said onTuesday that proclaiming the 1995 combined military and policeOperation Storm a joint criminal enterprise would mean revisinghistory and facts, as well as the fundamental postulates of the Haguewar crimes tribunal.
ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks said on Tuesday that proclaiming the 1995 combined military and police Operation Storm a joint criminal enterprise would mean revising history and facts, as well as the fundamental postulates of the Hague war crimes tribunal.

"One should not forget... that a committee has been set up to mark August 5 and Storm as one of the most brilliant operations of the Homeland War, and to now proclaim Storm in its entirety a criminal enterprise based on collective responsibility, and contrary to the Statute, means going into a revision of history, facts and the Hague tribunal's fundamental postulates," Seks told the press.

He comments came in the wake of the Prosecution's proposed amended indictment against Croatian generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac.

Seks said the Hague tribunal's Prosecution was just one side in the proceedings and that it would not be the first time that such proposals were "simply rejected" by the Trial Chamber.

He said that from a legal point of view, the Prosecution did not act in line with the Trial Chamber's instructions to elaborate the indictment with regard to the time frame and people mentioned in it. He added it was now up to the defence to lodge appeals.

Seks said that from a political point of view, the proposed amended indictment was contrary to the tribunal's Statute and Rules of Procedure, as well as to the UN Security Council Resolution, based on which the tribunal was founded, about concrete, individual responsibility.

He said the amended indictment was entirely unacceptable and contrary to any reasonable feeling of justice.

Seks said that the government should use the friends of the court and the defence to see to it that the amended indictment's mentioning of an unlimited number of people as potential indictees be rejected.

He said there would be no extraordinary parliamentary session as requested by the Party of Rights because there was no reason for it. He added an extraordinary session must be proposed by the president, the prime minister or the majority of MPs, or by himself after consultations with the presidents of the clubs of deputies.

Seks said a proposal would be put to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to address parliament at the start of the next session on May 18 and explain the government's positions regarding the expanded number of people in indictments against Croatian generals.

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