COUNTY ASSEMBLY EXTENDS MORAL SUPPORT TO INDICTED GENERALS

SISAK, March 11 (Hina) - The Sisak-Moslavina County Assembly adopted a decision on Thursday extending "moral support to all Croatian generals whom the Hague (tribunal's) Office of the Prosecutor has accused, and (urging) the government to use all legal means to protect the dignity of the Homeland War, the indicted Croatian generals and all who took part in the Homeland War, notably the dignity of the first Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman".#L# The councillors "reject the political discrediting the Prosecutor's Office has made in the indictment against Croatian generals Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak, as well as in the amended indictment against General Ante Gotovina". The decision says the indictments allege that "there was an idea and programme for the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia" and that "a criminal organisation was set up for that purpose, with the first Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, at its helm". "All these allegations by the Office of the Prosecutor are entirely untrue and constitute a direct attempt to revise the Homeland War, the idea of the Croatian state and the Croatian people's right to defend itself from the Greater Serbia aggression (launched) against Croatia in the Homeland War," the decision says. (Hina) ha sb