MOSTAR, March 9 (Hina) - Croats detained at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague are disgruntled with the attitude of incumbent authorities in Croatia and the former in Bosnia towards their defence and families, the Catholic
Press Agency from Sarajevo said on Sunday.
MOSTAR, March 9 (Hina) - Croats detained at the U.N. war crimes
tribunal in The Hague are disgruntled with the attitude of
incumbent authorities in Croatia and the former in Bosnia towards
their defence and families, the Catholic Press Agency from Sarajevo
said on Sunday. #L#
The detainees spoke to father Toma Knezevic, an envoy of Archbishop
Vinko Puljic, the Bosnian Catholic Church primate, who spent four
days at the tribunal's Scheveningen detention centre.
The Croats said their home countries did not give them equal access
to documentation as was granted the tribunal's prosecution. They
asked that their defence teams be given the same documents as the
prosecution, and that their families receive constant and
institutional support.
Although there was a written approval for father Knezevic to meet
every Croat individually, the Croatian office for cooperation with
the Hague tribunal subsequently informed him only a joint meeting
was possible. Knezevic spent three hours with the detainees.
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