SISAK OVER ARREST OF TWO WAR VETERANS SISAK, June 24 (Hina) - Some 30 Croatian war veterans and local officials have been protesting in front of Sisak's county court since 8 a.m. on Tuesday against yesterday's arrest of two veterans
on war crimes charges.
SISAK, June 24 (Hina) - Some 30 Croatian war veterans and local
officials have been protesting in front of Sisak's county court
since 8 a.m. on Tuesday against yesterday's arrest of two veterans
on war crimes charges. #L#
The state prosecutor's office in Sisak has pressed charges against
Stanislav Gavron, 40, of Vojnic, and Ivan Hubelic, 48, of Sisak, due
to founded suspicion that they killed Nikola Drobnjak, a Croatian
Serb, on 5 April 1992
"Politics is equating the victim and the aggressor, which bothers
Croatian war veterans and the majority of Croatians," Ante Bobetko,
president of the county coordinating body of Homeland War
associations, said on behalf of the demonstrators.
Every war is bloody and filthy, and Croatia waged a defensive war
against an aggressor on its territory, said Bobetko. He added war
veterans were hurt that "this Croatian state amnestied and
acquitted the Chetniks who had taken part in the armed rebellion
against the Croatian state and people, while nobody has yet
amnestied Croatian war veterans who had fought against the
Chetniks".
Bobetko said the bulk of Lepoglava prison inmates were Homeland War
volunteers, and that the Serb aggressor killed in excess of 1,500
innocent civilians in Sisak-Moslavina County during the war.
"In 99 percent of cases nobody answered for that, neither the
perpetrators, nor those who gave orders, nor those who organised
such large-scale and horrible mass crimes," Bobetko said,
demanding the same criteria for all.
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