VINKOVCI, April 5 (Hina) - The leader of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), Anto Djapic, said on Monday that the latest indictments issued by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague "criminalise Croatia's entire recent history, which
is unacceptable to the Croatian people, as it should be to the ruling party".
VINKOVCI, April 5 (Hina) - The leader of the Croatian Party of Rights
(HSP), Anto Djapic, said on Monday that the latest indictments issued
by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague "criminalise Croatia's
entire recent history, which is unacceptable to the Croatian people,
as it should be to the ruling party".#L#
Speaking in Vinkovci at the opening of new offices of the HSP branch
in Vukovar County, Djapic said that it was time for "immediate and
sensible action towards the international community and the Hague
tribunal".
The HSP leader said that he had sent a letter to Prime Minister Ivo
Sanader requesting an urgent meeting for talks on a strategy towards
the tribunal.
Djapic said in the letter that acceptance by the tribunal of the
indictments against Croatian army generals Mladen Markac and Ivan
Cermak and Bosnian Croat military and political officials would mean
"de facto overall criminalisation of modern Croatian history".
He called for immediate political, legal and diplomatic action, adding
that such a move would require a general political and national
consensus.
(Hina) rml