SPLIT RESIDENTS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE SUPPORTING WAR CRIME SUSPECTS SPLIT, Jan 27 (Hina) - Seven residents of the southern Adriatic seaport of Split resumed on Sunday a hunger strike they started yesterday in support of seven detainees
suspected of war crimes committed in Split's Lora military prison in 1992. Not one of the seven men wish to disclose their name. "Write only that we are Croatian citizens tired of seeing victim and criminal equated. We are on strike in front of a church so they won't say we are pressuring the court," one of them told reporters. "We won't move from here or eat anything as long as our bodies can stand it" or until the detainees are released, he said. He added this was a citizens' initiative and had nothing to do with the HVIDR-a disabled war veterans' association. The seven suspects detained in the Split county court have been on a hunger strike since Jan. 23 after their appeal against detention was turned down.(hina) ha
SPLIT, Jan 27 (Hina) - Seven residents of the southern Adriatic
seaport of Split resumed on Sunday a hunger strike they started
yesterday in support of seven detainees suspected of war crimes
committed in Split's Lora military prison in 1992.
Not one of the seven men wish to disclose their name. "Write only
that we are Croatian citizens tired of seeing victim and criminal
equated. We are on strike in front of a church so they won't say we
are pressuring the court," one of them told reporters.
"We won't move from here or eat anything as long as our bodies can
stand it" or until the detainees are released, he said.
He added this was a citizens' initiative and had nothing to do with
the HVIDR-a disabled war veterans' association.
The seven suspects detained in the Split county court have been on a
hunger strike since Jan. 23 after their appeal against detention
was turned down.
(hina) ha