ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - Members of the Croatian Bloc (HB) party bench informed reporters Thursday the bench would launch an initiative among party benches in parliament to amend a constitutional law on cooperation with the
Hague-based international war crimes tribunal (ICTY).
ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - Members of the Croatian Bloc (HB) party
bench informed reporters Thursday the bench would launch an
initiative among party benches in parliament to amend a
constitutional law on cooperation with the Hague-based
international war crimes tribunal (ICTY). #L#
HB believes that changes to the constitutional law, drawn up by
General Ante Gotovina's team of attorneys, should be sent into
parliamentary procedure.
According to the draft amendments, the country's judiciary would
decide whether ICTY indictments are founded or not, and thus defend
Homeland War values and protect the citizens' human and civil
rights, HB president Ivic Pasalic said.
He said that after Croatia submitted its request for membership in
the EU, a media campaign was launched again against the Croatian
army and its generals. He accused the government of using the
campaign to receive tacit support for offering a reward for
Gotovina's arrest.
"The incumbent government wants to show Gotovina as a brazen
criminal. This was all spiced up with the claim that the failure to
arrest Gotovina was an obstacle to Croatia's accession into the
EU," said Pasalic.
He stressed that the government had not as much as tried to contest
the indictment against Gotovina, and was refusing to hand documents
which may be used to challenge the indictment to his attorneys.
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