ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament's Committee on the Constitution, Rule Book and the Political System on Wednesday criticised minority deputy Furio Radin's statement that Serbs in Croatia were subject to ethnic
cleansing in the early 1990s, describing it as inappropriate and unfounded.
ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament's Committee on the
Constitution, Rule Book and the Political System on Wednesday
criticised minority deputy Furio Radin's statement that Serbs in
Croatia were subject to ethnic cleansing in the early 1990s,
describing it as inappropriate and unfounded.#L#
During last week's debate about this year's draft state budget, Radin
said that Jews and Roma had been exposed to ethnic cleansing in World
War II, Germans and Italians in 1945, and Serbs in the first half of
the 1990s.
Session chairman Darko Milinovic failed to reprimand Radin for the
statement, claiming he had overheard it.
The Party of Rights (HSP) club of deputies called on the Committee to
state its position on Radin's statement and the session chairman's
conduct.
Independent deputy Slaven Letica, who is a member of the HSP club of
deputies, today reiterated that Radin's statement was the gravest
accusation about the Homeland War and the creation of the Croatian
state ever to be uttered in the parliament.
The Committee decided unanimously that Radin's claim was inappropriate
and not grounded in facts.
The Committee also accepted circumstances which led to Radin not being
reprimanded, warning session chairpersons to be more attentive in the
future.
(Hina) rml sb