RIJEKA, Jan 29 (Hina) - The main hearing in the war crimes trial of the so-called Gospic Group resumed at the Rijeka County Court on Tuesday with the presentation of evidence about Croatian Serbs gone missing in Gospic and Karlobag in
late 1991. Panel of judges president Ika Saric read out lists of missing persons from several sources, including official police records, and lists of the government's commission for detained and missing persons and the Red Cross. These lists mention the missing as victims of executions in Pazariste, Lipova Glavica, and on the Velebit mountain. Charged with these crimes are the defendants Tihomir Oreskovic, Ivica Rozic, Milan Canic, Mirko Norac, and Stjepan Grandic. Defence attorney Zeljko Olujic said he was suspicious of the authenticity of document copies, and warned that most police reports had been initialled. At the end of the four-hour main hearing, Judge Saric read out th
RIJEKA, Jan 29 (Hina) - The main hearing in the war crimes trial of
the so-called Gospic Group resumed at the Rijeka County Court on
Tuesday with the presentation of evidence about Croatian Serbs gone
missing in Gospic and Karlobag in late 1991.
Panel of judges president Ika Saric read out lists of missing
persons from several sources, including official police records,
and lists of the government's commission for detained and missing
persons and the Red Cross.
These lists mention the missing as victims of executions in
Pazariste, Lipova Glavica, and on the Velebit mountain. Charged
with these crimes are the defendants Tihomir Oreskovic, Ivica
Rozic, Milan Canic, Mirko Norac, and Stjepan Grandic.
Defence attorney Zeljko Olujic said he was suspicious of the
authenticity of document copies, and warned that most police
reports had been initialled.
At the end of the four-hour main hearing, Judge Saric read out the
death certificates of people killed in the Gospic area in October of
1991.
The trial resumes tomorrow.
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