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YU. WAR CRIMES INDICTEE MARTIC SAYS LIFETIME IMPRISONMENT AWAITS HIM

BELGRADE, April 28 (Hina) - Milan Martic, the former president of the so-called Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK), Croatian territory formerly occupied by Serb rebels, who has been charged by the Hague war crimes tribunal with the May 1995 shelling of Zagreb, told Nedeljni Telegraf daily of Sunday he "naively believed RSK would unite with Serbia" and that there would "be some rump Yugoslavia."
BELGRADE, April 28 (Hina) - Milan Martic, the former president of the so-called Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK), Croatian territory formerly occupied by Serb rebels, who has been charged by the Hague war crimes tribunal with the May 1995 shelling of Zagreb, told Nedeljni Telegraf daily of Sunday he "naively believed RSK would unite with Serbia" and that there would "be some rump Yugoslavia." #L# "Nobody can save me anymore. Lifetime imprisonment awaits me," said Martic, admitting to having personally ordered the shelling of Zagreb to help Serb refugees from western Slavonia cross the Sava river into the Bosnian Serb entity and reach Serbia. "If I hadn't done that, another 10,000 Serbs would have perished during the retreat from Croatia," he said. Martic said his 1994 running for RSK president was a political mistake. Nedeljni Telegraf says Martic is still puzzled as to how it was possible for the "mother country to trick its people." Official Belgrade was trusted too much, said Martic. "I didn't want the authority. Circumstance threw me at the helm of developments. I naively believed we would unite with Serbia, that there would be some rump Yugoslavia," he told the daily. Martic said he would not testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague tribunal, but added that "eye to eye, I wouldn't spare him." "If I only knew that my imprisonment would be of some use to the Krajina population, that would make me happy. I would even agree to being shot for that," said Martic, adding that he could not allow himself to hide in caves or "kill (himself) like Vlajko" Stojiljkovic, a senior Serbian official charged with war crimes who recently committed suicide. Nedeljni Telegraf says that in seven years of hiding, Martic spent four in a village in Serbia's Sumadija region under the false name of Dragan. Martic has recently volunteered to surrender himself to the Hague tribunal. (hina) ha

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