ZAGREB, Sept 21 (Hina) - The Association of Croatian Policemen -- Veterans of the Homeland War have described the indictment against General Janko Bobetko as "scandalous and shameful". They have expressed their support to Bobetko's
statement that the indictment was also an aggression on Croatia.
ZAGREB, Sept 21 (Hina) - The Association of Croatian Policemen --
Veterans of the Homeland War have described the indictment against
General Janko Bobetko as "scandalous and shameful". They have
expressed their support to Bobetko's statement that the indictment
was also an aggression on Croatia. #L#
"We believe that the indictment, along all those against Croatian
generals and other veterans, is the most drastic and impudent blow
to justice, the truth and Croatia's national pride and dignity,"
the association said in a statement on Saturday.
They also said that they supported the government's move to
proclaim the indictment unconstitutional and illegitimate with
relation to the Defence Law and to enter a legal dispute with the
international war crimes tribunal, although they believe this to be
"dishonest and only a tactical retreat".
A branch of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) in Cologne also sent a
letter of support to General Bobetko. The members said that the
Hague indictment against Bobetko was the continuation of
criminalising the Homeland War.
The Croatian people should be unified as they were in 1990 when
"even the Party of Rights accepted the hand of reconciliation at the
beginning of the struggle for creating the Croatian state, and
supported partisan generals Franjo Tudjman and Janko Bobetko".
Independent Croatian Volunteers also sent a note of support to
Bobetko, saying that the "survived and for the most part humiliated
Croatian veterans are proud to have fought under his command".
(hina) lml