ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - Retired General Mladen Markac, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), will after all answer the questions of Hague-based war crimes tribunal investigators
in Zagreb on Tuesday, December 10, Markac's attorney Miroslav Separovic told Hina on Monday.
ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - Retired General Mladen Markac, who has been
indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY), will after all answer the questions of Hague-
based war crimes tribunal investigators in Zagreb on Tuesday,
December 10, Markac's attorney Miroslav Separovic told Hina on
Monday. #L#
Separovic on Friday through the Croatian government's office for
cooperation with the ICTY, 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.
Markac's attorney told Hina on Monday that the government's office
informed him that his request had been denied.
Markac collected the Hague prosecution's request for an interview
as a suspect on November 19, at the government's office for
cooperation with the Hague-based tribunal.
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.
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