ZAGREB, March 8 (Hina) - Justice Minister Vesna Skare-Ozbolt said on Monday that certain allegations in the indictment against generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac and the amended indictment against general Ante Gotovina were
neither politically nor legally correct.
ZAGREB, March 8 (Hina) - Justice Minister Vesna Skare-Ozbolt said on
Monday that certain allegations in the indictment against generals
Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac and the amended indictment against
general Ante Gotovina were neither politically nor legally correct.#L#
"The government is now considering the possibility of engaging
domestic and foreign experts in their defence as amici curiae, or
friends of the court, in order to remove unacceptable legal and
political allegations about the Homeland War," Skare-Ozbolt told Hina,
adding that "Croatia will do all it can within the scope of legal
procedure to ensure that the historical truth about the defensive
Homeland War is established".
She recalled that the former US ambassador to Croatia, Peter
Galbraith, said in his capacity as a witness in the trial of former
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague that Croatian armed forces had not committed
ethnic cleansing during Operation Storm in 1995.
Earlier today, Skare-Ozbolt confirmed at a press conference that the
Croatian government had received fresh indictments from The Hague on
March 1, but that she could not comment on them because they were
"sealed" at the time.
(Hina) vm sb