ZAGREB, July 23 (Hina) - The leader of a non-parliamentary party, called Socialist Labour Party, and the editor of the magazine "Hrvatska Ljevica (Croatia's Left)", Stipe Suvar, on Tuesday claimed that the toll of war crimes in the
town of Sisak (50 kilometres south-east of Zagreb) was 107 killed people, and 600 went missing.
ZAGREB, July 23 (Hina) - The leader of a non-parliamentary party,
called Socialist Labour Party, and the editor of the magazine
"Hrvatska Ljevica (Croatia's Left)", Stipe Suvar, on Tuesday
claimed that the toll of war crimes in the town of Sisak (50
kilometres south-east of Zagreb) was 107 killed people, and 600
went missing. #L#
Presenting the latest issue of his magazine, which wrote about
these crimes, Suvar said the atrocities in summer and autumn 1991 in
Sisak had been orchestrated from Zagreb.
This politician claims that the purpose of the crimes was the ethnic
cleansing of Serbs from Sisak.
He said at a news conference that also "suspect Croats" were victims
of the suffering.
Suvar blamed some local politicians for the crimes.
Today the crimes are mentioned with fear as those people who were a
part of authorities in 1991, are still in power, Suvar added.
He said Zagreb had known of the crimes and some high-ranking state
and judicial officials toured Sisak after being informed of them,
but only one verdict has so far been passed, and perpetrators of the
crimes were granted amnesty in 1993.
Suvar reminded of the fact that according to a court verdict in
1999, which he described as "tragicomic, his party had to pay
100,000 kuna as damages for the distress it inflicted on Ivan
Bobetko after it accused him in an article of crimes in the Sisak
area. Bobetko was the head of the Sisak crisis committee in 1991.
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