HAGUE INDICTMENTS ACCUSE CROATIAN STATE -- CONDIC

SPLIT, July 29 (Hina) - The centre for the protection of the Croatian Homeland Defence War dignity holds that the Hague tribunal's indictment against General Ante Gotovina accuses the former Croatian government of planned ethnic cleansing against Serbs, and the current government, by accepting the indictment, is betraying national interests and acting contrary to the Constitution. The centre's president, Mirko Condic, told a news conference in Split today that the international war crimes tribunal's indictment accuses all state and military leaders of having planned and with premeditation ethnically cleansed the former so-called Serb Krajina of Serbs. The centre's vice-president Luka Podrug said acting in line with the indictments and their adoption by the current government is an anti-constitutional and betraying act. Podrug said Premier Ivica Racan and President Stipe Mesic were writing indictments themselves, and the Hague-based tribunal is only putting them through protocol. Condic asserted the Office for the Protection of the Constitutional Order has during the last several days been undertaking illegal action to obtain any evidence backing the tribunal's indictments, and is for this purpose, taking in army officers and platoon commanders to blackmail them into giving out "non-existent evidence about war crimes". Asked to specify which officers he was talking about, Condic refused, saying their safty was at stake. (hina) lml