ZAGREB, Feb 26 (Hina) - President of the association for protecting and promoting Homeland Defence War values, HONOS, Nenad Ivankovic, was on Tuesday questioned by police about his providing reporters with a copy of an alleged SFOR
document which said that the Croatian government was organising the arrest and possible liquidation of General Ante Gotovina. The alleged SFOR document was handed out by Ivankovic as a press conference on January 29. The authenticity and content of the document was refuted the same day by the government's and SFOR's spokespeople, by the chairwoman of the parliament's Internal Affairs and National Security Committee, Djurdja Arlovic, and the head of the National Security Office, Tomislav Karamarko. Speaking to reporters after being questioned at the police station for half an hour, Ivankovic said this was political persecution, although, as he said, he had been called to the station as a common citizen, n
ZAGREB, Feb 26 (Hina) - President of the association for protecting
and promoting Homeland Defence War values, HONOS, Nenad Ivankovic,
was on Tuesday questioned by police about his providing reporters
with a copy of an alleged SFOR document which said that the Croatian
government was organising the arrest and possible liquidation of
General Ante Gotovina.
The alleged SFOR document was handed out by Ivankovic as a press
conference on January 29. The authenticity and content of the
document was refuted the same day by the government's and SFOR's
spokespeople, by the chairwoman of the parliament's Internal
Affairs and National Security Committee, Djurdja Arlovic, and the
head of the National Security Office, Tomislav Karamarko.
Speaking to reporters after being questioned at the police station
for half an hour, Ivankovic said this was political persecution,
although, as he said, he had been called to the station as a common
citizen, not as suspect.
"They wanted to know how I got the document, what my motive was to
show it to reporters, do I still have the document, and other
insignificant questions," Ivankovic said.
He explained that weeks before the distribution of the contentious
document, "it was talk in the corridors about an operation to have
Gotovina arrested and possibly liquidated," and, after the alleged
SFOR document arrived to HONOS by mail, he believed that the public
should be informed about it and force the government to say whether
the document was true or not, and whether such an operation was
being carried out.
Explaining his claim that he was being persecuted by police, with
the initiator being Karamarko, Ivankovic said a policeman in
uniform on Monday handed him the paper calling him to the station,
which "compromised him in front of neighbours as being a person of
unsavoury business".
Moreover, he added, the media daily published a large number of
documents, even secret ones, for which "nobody was called to the
police station for questioning".
Ivankovic said he knew that the police was tapping his mobile
telephone, and one of the reasons for his persecution was that a
large number of people, including academicians and athletes, were
preparing a support rally for Gotovina.
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