RIJEKA: TRIAL OF GOSPIC GROUP RESUMES

RIJEKA, Nov 28 (Hina) - The Rijeka County Court has accepted new evidence in the trial of the so-called Gospic group after graphologists established that the documents in question had been written by the head of the Gospic police public security service in 1991, Zeljko Bolf. #L# During a previous testimony, Bolf stated that he could not recognise the handwriting in the documents and reports in question. A report which Bolf had given to an unnamed person or service in the Interior Ministry was read out at the trial today. The report charges indictees Tihomir Oreskovic and Mirko Norac with having organised the abduction and execution of civilians. The report, which refers to the autumn of 1991, notes that Oreskovic took over authority in Gospic with the help of military police. Describing the so-called deadly meeting which was attended by almost all important figures in Gospic at the time and which preceded the execution of civilians at Pazariste, in which people attending the meeting took part, Bolf said that Mirko Norac had told the gathered they had to "liquidate a group of Serbs". During the liquidation, he kept shouting "Shoot, shoot, what are you waiting for! Who hasn't shot yet?", reads the report. Bolf also claims Oreskovic told him that some of the people invited to the meeting had to prove their loyalty to the Croatian authorities by participating in the execution. Both Oreskovic and Norac said the report was false. Their defence requested that the report not be included in the court file, which the court refused. The trial resumes on Monday, December 2. (hina) rml sb