The war veterans association's leaders today informed a news conference in the coastal city of Sibenik of their move.
Association chairman Vladimir Gojanovic told reporters the association possessed material and legally sound evidence on the involvement of Croatia's state leadership and members of the then Defence and National Security Council (VONS) in the ethnic cleansing policy, which he called as being official in the wake of the 1995 Storm operation.
The association insists on a probe being launched into the role of then Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, Prime Ministers Nikica Valentic and Zlatko Matesa, and a majority of the then ministers.
Gojanovic also pointed the finger at former PM Ivica Racan and his cabinet's justice, interior and foreign ministers, accusing them of hushing up the crime.
He slammed former state prosecutors in Zadar and Sibenik, Ivan Galovic and Zeljko Zganjer respectively, for failing to indict responsible persons in the case.
"Every crime must be punished, no matter if top officials of an internationally recognised country were involved. We refer to the Hague tribunal because of the Varivode and Gosici case, as we have lost trust in Croatian judicial institutions," Gojanovic said.
In February 2002, the Sibenik office of the state prosecutor reported it decided against issuing any indictment against suspects in the Varivode case as a repeated investigation and the reconstruction of the crime showed that suspects had not been at the scene of the crime when it happened and that victims had not been killed by weapons previously seized from them.