ZAGREB, May 26 (Hina) - Croatia's Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic has said that Croatian authorities have been cooperating with the Slovene prosecution in investigations into war crimes committed after WWII. Bajic has told Hina
that he requested documentation regarding statements by Zdenko Zavadlav, a former head of the secret military police (OZNA) office in Slovenia, about the mass killing of Croats in Slovenia after WWII.
ZAGREB, May 26 (Hina) - Croatia's Chief State Prosecutor Mladen
Bajic has said that Croatian authorities have been cooperating with
the Slovene prosecution in investigations into war crimes
committed after WWII. Bajic has told Hina that he requested
documentation regarding statements by Zdenko Zavadlav, a former
head of the secret military police (OZNA) office in Slovenia, about
the mass killing of Croats in Slovenia after WWII. #L#
In an interview for Sunday's issue of Zagreb's "Jutarnji list"
daily, Zavadlav (aged 79) said that "the recently discovered mass
grave at Borl in Slovenia contained the bodies of Croats killed by
the Yugoslav Army at the end of WWII in May 1945".
Zavadlav, the then deputy head of the OZNA for the Maribor region,
claims that "the Army killed Croats who were handed over to them
after their unsuccessful attempt to escape from columns moving
along the Way of the Cross".
"We, Slovenes, killed our own and the Croats and Serbs killed their
own," Zavadlav says, claiming that Slovenes handed the Croatian
Homeguards and Ustasha over to the Army.
Once the requested documents are obtained and studied, the
prosecution will decide about measures to be taken, said Bajic.
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