PAKOSTANE, July 25 (Hina) - Three Dalmatian county prefects on Wednesday paid a visit to the municipality of Pakostane and the family of General Ante Gotovina, who is widely believed to be an indictee named in sealed indictments
recently served by the UN war crimes tribunal (ICTY) to Zagreb and whose whereabouts has been unknown since the police issued a warrant for the arrest of one indictee on the grounds of the ICTY secret indictment. During their meeting with the municipal authorities, prefects of Split-Dalmatia, Branimir Luksic, of Sibenik-Knin, Gordan Baraka, and of Zadar, Sime Prtenjaca, said they had come to express full moral support as well as other kinds of support to General Gotovina and his family. The three prefects praised Gotovina for his role in the Homeland War, and said they regarded him as a national hero. Split Prefect Luksic added that he did not know where Gotovina was curr
PAKOSTANE, July 25 (Hina) - Three Dalmatian county prefects on
Wednesday paid a visit to the municipality of Pakostane and the
family of General Ante Gotovina, who is widely believed to be an
indictee named in sealed indictments recently served by the UN war
crimes tribunal (ICTY) to Zagreb and whose whereabouts has been
unknown since the police issued a warrant for the arrest of one
indictee on the grounds of the ICTY secret indictment.
During their meeting with the municipal authorities, prefects of
Split-Dalmatia, Branimir Luksic, of Sibenik-Knin, Gordan Baraka,
and of Zadar, Sime Prtenjaca, said they had come to express full
moral support as well as other kinds of support to General Gotovina
and his family.
The three prefects praised Gotovina for his role in the Homeland
War, and said they regarded him as a national hero.
Split Prefect Luksic added that he did not know where Gotovina was
currently, but expressed hope justice would win that "the time will
show that all these accusations against him (General Gotovina) have
actually been an attempt to accuse Croatia..."
Sibenik Prefect Baraka explained their visit to Pakostane and the
Gotovina family as their voice "of support to the (incumbent)
Government to be patriotic and not to let the state be lost in a
legal imbroglio of The Hague (Tribunal)."
After their meeting in the town hall, the three prefects, together
with a local leader of the HDZ political party, visited the
Gotovinas. Reporters were asked not to attend that meeting.
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