THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Feb 3(Hina) - Testifying against former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) General Pavle Strugar before the Hague war crimes tribunal on Tuesday, Irish Colonel Colm Doyle, former chief of the European Community Monitoring
Mission to Bosnia, said Strugar had told him on 6 December 1991 that his troops were shelling southern Croatia's Dubrovnik.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Feb 3(Hina) - Testifying against former Yugoslav
People's Army (JNA) General Pavle Strugar before the Hague war crimes
tribunal on Tuesday, Irish Colonel Colm Doyle, former chief of the
European Community Monitoring Mission to Bosnia, said Strugar had told
him on 6 December 1991 that his troops were shelling southern
Croatia's Dubrovnik.#L#
Strugar is on trial for crimes the JNA Second Operations Group, which
he commanded, committed while attacking Dubrovnik in December of
1991.
Doyle said Strugar had justified the attack at a meeting in Trebinje
by claiming that Croatian paramilitary troops had been killing his
soldiers.
The prosecution entered into evidence a photograph of Doyle and
Strugar shot on 6 December 1991, whose back says it was taken the day
Strugar launched the shelling of Dubrovnik which claimed 16 lives.
The 70-year-old general said in court he did not recognise Doyle in
the photo and had no idea who this man was, referring to his own
dementia, as he has done since the trial began.
His attorney Goran Rodic today once again requested an adjournment,
claiming that his client was not fit to stand trial due to illness. He
produced doctors' findings indicating that Strugar suffers from
depression and post-traumatic stress.
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