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ORESKOVIC'S ATTORNEYS MAKE CLOSING STATEMENTS AT TRIAL

RIJEKA, March 18 (Hina) - The defence attorney of the chief indictee in the trial against the so-called Gospic Group at Rijeka County Court on Tuesday made his closing statement. Tihomir Oreskovic's attorney Zeljko Olujic asked of the trial chamber to acquit his client because, as he said, he had committed no criminal act.
RIJEKA, March 18 (Hina) - The defence attorney of the chief indictee in the trial against the so-called Gospic Group at Rijeka County Court on Tuesday made his closing statement. Tihomir Oreskovic's attorney Zeljko Olujic asked of the trial chamber to acquit his client because, as he said, he had committed no criminal act. #L# Olujic asserted that the witnesses and prosecutorial evidence were "completely off track", that none of the witnesses had said Oreskovic himself had killed civilians, and that he could not have issued orders to the army or military police, which excluded command responsibility. The attorney said that Oreskovic had not had a military or police rank during the period of time in question, so he could not have given orders. Speaking about witnesses in the trial, Olujic said that for the most part, they were false witnesses. As far as witnesses, the families of missing and killed persons, are concerned, he said that they had mostly been instructed about what to say in Serbia, and these people, he said, hated Croatia. Responding to the closing statement of a representative of the injured parties, attorney Slobodan Budak, Olujic said that Croatia could not be proclaimed guilty in this trial, because criminal proceedings could only focus on subjective guilt. If this trial is about command responsibility, the first person to have been indicted should have been Josip Manolic -- a former senior state official and an official of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) -- for perjury and for "being the biggest culprit for the committed crimes," said Olujic. He asserted this was a political trial, aimed at indicting Croatian major war volunteers. He said that the indictees were good people because they had taken part in defending Gospic and Croatia. Another Oreskovic's attorney, Bosiljko Misetic, said Oreskovic could be guilty "only for the creation of the Croatian state". Misetic said that the goal of this trial was not just to "incriminate the Croatian Homeland War", but also "to prove that Croatia was founded on crime". If this is proven, Croatia will lose its international support, which, he said, "realises the concept of former Yugoslav intelligence services' underground which wants to return Croatia into Balkan associations". Oreskovic is indicted for issuing orders for the abduction and liquidation of at least 50 civilians, mostly Serbs, from the Gospic and Karlobag areas in the autumn of 1991. At that time Oreskovic was the secretary of the Crisis Centre for the Lika region. (hina) lml sb

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