ZAGREB, March 18 (Hina) - The latest indictments from The Hague, particularly some political assessments in them, deeply hurt all truth-loving Croatian citizens, caused various reactions of political parties and posed an important
question - who is the political mentor of the staff of the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal and what kinds of aims towards Croatia they have, reads the editorial in the latest issue of Croatia's major Catholic weekly 'Glas Koncila".
ZAGREB, March 18 (Hina) - The latest indictments from The Hague,
particularly some political assessments in them, deeply hurt all
truth-loving Croatian citizens, caused various reactions of political
parties and posed an important question - who is the political mentor
of the staff of the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal and what kinds
of aims towards Croatia they have, reads the editorial in the latest
issue of Croatia's major Catholic weekly 'Glas Koncila".#L#
In the editorial headlined "What is the Aim of the Hague Tribunal?",
it is said that the faithful is particularly hurt with the label 'the
criminal enterprise' for a liberating operation of the legitimate
armed forces of a internationally recognised sovereign state and a
claim that the objective of the operation was the forcible and
permanent removal of the Serb population. The editorial reads that
such assessments are totally questionable, unacceptable and not
objective.
"From the Catholic moral point of view, the participation in a defence
war, which is often done at the price of one's own life, is an act of
love towards the homeland and its citizens, and from the humane and
patriotic point of view, it is a brave act when it is free of any
extremism and chauvinism," the Glas Koncila says.
The editorial say that it is not by chance that the indictments do not
mention "the historical fact about the Greater Serbian rebellion,
aggression and occupation of a part of the territory within the
internationally recognised Croatian borders" and that in a way the
Republic of Srpska Krajina is given the legal subjectivity.
If such subtile incrimination, made by the Hague tribunal's
prosecution, were accepted as a relevant criteria at the global level,
then all states and and armies across the world could be accused of
planning and preparing a 'criminal enterprise'.
The weekly believes that the incumbent Croatian government has a
historic responsibility to use all means envisaged by the statute of
the International Criminal Court to present the objective truth on the
entire historical context of the disintegration of the former federal
Socialist Yugoslavia and of the Homeland Defence War as, the paper
says, there are evidently political forces in the international
community as well as exponents of that policy in the present-day
Croatia, that cannot adjust to the collapse of Yugoslavia and blame
Croatia for its disintegration.
(Hina) ms sb