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WITNESS IN STRUGAR TRIAL SAYS ATTACK ON DUBROVNIK 'BIGGEST DISGRACE POSSIBLE'

THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Jan 23(Hina) - Testifying against former Yugoslav Army General Pavle Strugar at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Friday, former Montenegrin Foreign Minister Nikola Samardzic labelled the attack of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Montenegro's Territorial Defence on southern Croatia's Dubrovnik in 1991 as "the biggest disgrace possible".
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Jan 23(Hina) - Testifying against former Yugoslav Army General Pavle Strugar at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Friday, former Montenegrin Foreign Minister Nikola Samardzic labelled the attack of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Montenegro's Territorial Defence on southern Croatia's Dubrovnik in 1991 as "the biggest disgrace possible".#L# "What we did in Dubrovnik in 1991 is the biggest disgrace possible," Samardzic said. The 70-year-old Strugar is charged with the shelling of Dubrovnik, notably its Old Town, in December 1991, from positions of the JNA Second Operational Group, which he commanded. Samardzic confirmed that Dubrovnik had been subjected to large-scale shelling on that December 6, that protected religious and cultural buildings had been deliberate targets and that they had sustained major damage. The witness said that in October 1991 he had launched a peace initiative which was adopted in Zagreb but that the then Montenegrin president, Momir Bulatovic, had put an end to it, probably on orders from Belgrade. "We couldn't order Strugar and the JNA to stop the war but we did try to stop the killing of people and the destruction of the city," he said. After that, the then Montenegrin government with Premier Milo Djukanovic at its helm did nothing to stop the attacks on Dubrovnik, Samardzic added. He went on to say that Montenegrin authorities had not been involved in attempts to create the Republic of Dubrovnik. Military intelligence and the People's Party of Novak Kilibarda, who saw himself as the president of that republic, were working on that, he said. Montenegro's opposition parties, led by the Liberal Alliance, staged protest rallies against the attacks on Dubrovnik, Samardzic added. Speaking of the apology over those attacks Djukanovic made to the Croatian public in 2000 in his capacity as Montenegro's president, the witness said it confirmed the attacks had not been the result of the danger that the "Ustasha" might attack Montenegro, as Strugar and Bulatovic had claimed in 1991, but that it had been launched as part of the Greater Serbia project. Nobody in Montenegro has ever been called to account for the attacks on Dubrovnik, which claimed the lives of 43 and left hundreds of people wounded, or for the plunder of the Dubrovnik area, Samardzic said. (Hina) ha sb

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