SARAJEVO, Sept 26 (Hina) - The president of the new Croat Initiative (NHI) party and Bosnian Minister for Refugees and Human Rights Issues, Kresimir Zubak, has warned the initiating of criminal proceedings against 15 Bosnian Croats
before the Zenica Canton Court cannot be interpreted any other way than as a political process and asked that the current investigation and a possible trial be entrusted to another, impartial court. In a letter to High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, Zubak says the course of the criminal proceedings against the Croat military and political officials from Zepce "undoubtedly shows this is a political process, one in a series of indictments issued during and in the aftermath of the war as a means of political and psychological pressure." On March 29 this year, the Zenica Canton Court requested launching an investigation against 15 Croats on suspicion of founding prison camps for non-Cr
SARAJEVO, Sept 26 (Hina) - The president of the new Croat Initiative
(NHI) party and Bosnian Minister for Refugees and Human Rights
Issues, Kresimir Zubak, has warned the initiating of criminal
proceedings against 15 Bosnian Croats before the Zenica Canton
Court cannot be interpreted any other way than as a political
process and asked that the current investigation and a possible
trial be entrusted to another, impartial court.
In a letter to High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, Zubak says
the course of the criminal proceedings against the Croat military
and political officials from Zepce "undoubtedly shows this is a
political process, one in a series of indictments issued during and
in the aftermath of the war as a means of political and
psychological pressure."
On March 29 this year, the Zenica Canton Court requested launching
an investigation against 15 Croats on suspicion of founding prison
camps for non-Croats in Zepce during the war. Croat Defence Council
(HVO) generals Ivo Lozancic and Drago Dragicevic are among the
suspects.
(hina) sb rml