CAVTAT, June 7 (Hina) - The First Deputy Prime Minister and president of the Social Liberals (HSLS), Drazen Budisa, said on Friday that his party's stand on the "Gotovina case" had not changed at all since the war crimes tribunal in
the Hague (ICTY) issued an indictment against General Ante Gotovina.
CAVTAT, June 7 (Hina) - The First Deputy Prime Minister and
president of the Social Liberals (HSLS), Drazen Budisa, said on
Friday that his party's stand on the "Gotovina case" had not changed
at all since the war crimes tribunal in the Hague (ICTY) issued an
indictment against General Ante Gotovina. #L#
"The party's stand on the matter has not changed, we still think, as
we did at the time, that Gotovina being charged with of ethnic
cleansing of Croatian Serbs in collusion with President Tudjman was
unfounded," Budisa said in Cavtat, where he attended an
international conference of the Foundation 2020 "Kreacija
Kroacije" (Creation of Croatia).
HSLS spokesman Josko Kontic told the Slobodna Dalmacija daily of
Friday that a senior government source stating he had handed over to
the ICTY Chief Prosecutor documents proving that rebel Serb leader
Milan Martic signed the order on the evacuation of Croatian Serbs
was proof that the indictment against Gotovina was just a political
pamphlet, the purpose of which was to discredit Croatia's struggle
for independence.
Kontic said that the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of cooperation
with the ICTY, Goran Granic, and Chief State Prosecutor Mladen
Bajic should say this to the ICTY Chief Prosecutor and demand that
she withdraw the indictment against Gotovina.
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