RIJEKA, Feb 28 (Hina) - Investigative proceedings in a so-called 'Gospic case' were completed at the Rijeka County Court on Wednesday and it is expected a decision on the issuing of indictments will be made next week. Tihomir
Oreskovic, General Mirko Norac and several other persons are suspected of having committed the war crime of execution of a group of Serb civilians at Pazariste and Lipova Glavica and the abduction and execution of three residents of Karlobag in the central Croatian Gospic area in 1991. The investigation, which started in mid-September last year, includes eight suspects. Investigating judge Sajonara Culina questioned some 140 witnesses in the proceedings. The bodies of victims who had been allegedly executed at Lipova Glavica were exhumed in December last year at the location of Debelo Brdo. The identification of the bodies is underway. The Deputy State Prosecutor for Rijeka County, Doris Hrast, is expected t
RIJEKA, Feb 28 (Hina) - Investigative proceedings in a so-called
'Gospic case' were completed at the Rijeka County Court on
Wednesday and it is expected a decision on the issuing of
indictments will be made next week.
Tihomir Oreskovic, General Mirko Norac and several other persons
are suspected of having committed the war crime of execution of a
group of Serb civilians at Pazariste and Lipova Glavica and the
abduction and execution of three residents of Karlobag in the
central Croatian Gospic area in 1991. The investigation, which
started in mid-September last year, includes eight suspects.
Investigating judge Sajonara Culina questioned some 140 witnesses
in the proceedings.
The bodies of victims who had been allegedly executed at Lipova
Glavica were exhumed in December last year at the location of Debelo
Brdo. The identification of the bodies is underway.
The Deputy State Prosecutor for Rijeka County, Doris Hrast, is
expected to decide by the end of next week whether and against whom
indictments will be issued.
(hina) sb rml