ZAGREB, Dec 6 (Hina) - Miroslav Separovic, the defence attorney for retired Croatian general Mladen Markac, who is a suspect of the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague, on Friday requested the tribunal's prosecution to postpone an
interview with Markac scheduled for December 10 because the defence did not have sufficient time to prepare.
ZAGREB, Dec 6 (Hina) - Miroslav Separovic, the defence attorney for
retired Croatian general Mladen Markac, who is a suspect of the U.N.
war crimes tribunal at The Hague, on Friday requested the
tribunal's prosecution to postpone an interview with Markac
scheduled for December 10 because the defence did not have
sufficient time to prepare. #L#
Separovic said in a statement the interview should focus on all key
military operations in the Homeland War - Maslenica, the Medak
Pocket, Flash, and Storm.
The request for the postponement is by no means an obstruction
because the interview with investigators from The Hague is in
Markac's interest and in the interest of determining the truth
about the Homeland War, Separovic claimed.
Markac collected the Hague prosecution's request for an interview
as a suspect on November 19, at the government's office for co-
operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The request stated Markac would be interviewed concerning the
tribunal's investigations into the criminal responsibility of
individuals for grave breaches of international humanitarian law
that were allegedly committed in the period from 1991 to 1997.
Markac is one of the founders of special police units that he headed
from 1990 to 2001. On two occasions he was assistant interior
minister, while in the previous Sabor he was an MP of the then ruling
Croatian Democratic Union. Early 2001 he was relieved as assistant
interior minister and sent into retirement.
(hina) sp/ha sb