RETIRED GENERAL TOLJ ENDS INTERVIEW WITH HAGUE TRIBUNAL INVESTIGATORS

ZAGREB, May 12 (Hina) - Retired Croatian general Ivan Tolj on Wednesday completed interviews with investigators from the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, who interrogated him as a witness.#L# Tolj told Hina over the telephone the interviews were conducted on March 4 and 5, and on May 12. He said the investigators were interested in all major operations the Croatian army had undertaken during the 1990s war, including operations Medak Pocket, Flash, and Storm. Tolj added that the investigators were also interested in the structure of the armed forces, notably the organisation of the political administration and its role in the war, as well as in his part in that. Tolj said he had talked to the investigators without an attorney. He was unable to say if there would be more interviews. The retired general described the interviews as fair but exhausting. The Hague tribunal's Office of the Prosecutor requested an interview with Tolj in February. At the time of Operation Storm in the summer of 1995, Tolj was the chief of the Defence Ministry's Political Administration. (Hina) ha