FIRST DAY OF ICTY INVESTIGATORS' INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL MARKAC ENDS

ZAGREB, Dec 10 (Hina) - Retired Croatian general Mladen Markac on Tuesday answered questions by investigators of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) without the presence of government officials and in his capacity as a suspect, however, the contents of a possible indictment against him are still not known, Markac's attorney Miroslav Separovic said in Zagreb. #L# "So far there are no indications that General Markac is a suspect, however, they did say that they would discuss the grave violations of international humanitarian law committed during and after the Storm, Flash and Medak Pocket military actions, and that in that context General Markac is one of the suspects," Separovic said. The Hague investigators commenced the interview with questions about concrete military operations. "We spoke about General Markac, his profile, his career in the police, promotion, the organisation of special police units... we are slowly moving towards the Medak Pocket, which will probably be discussed in detail tomorrow," Separovic said. Separovic submitted two documents to the Hague investigators. One, a report by the Constitutional Court, "clearly notes that the so-called Republika Srpska Krajina was an illegal and unconstitutional entity and that Croatia had a legitimate right to liberate its temporarily occupied territory", he said. The second document was a law adopted by the RSK. "It is an excerpt from the Defence Law of the so-called RSK which states that any armed citizen who with arms or in some other way participated in resistance to the enemy is considered a member of the RSK army. We submitted this document to offer some insight into what we wish to say in our defence and to prevent bringing the legitimacy of the operation into question," Markac's attorney said. The three-day questioning will continue on Wednesday morning. (hina) sp rml sb