ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - On behalf of the Croatian government, Vice-Premier Goran Granic expressed satisfaction which the confirmation of a charges against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes committed in
Croatia. "We are satisfied that the indictment confirmed everything we had said about Milosevic and the Serbian aggression on Croatia," Granic said. The current Croatian government submitted more than 2,000 documents to the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal connected with the case, as well as all material prepared for the issuing of an indictment against Yugoslavia for genocide, Granic said. "It is characteristic for the indictment that it mentions crimes committed in places which are symbols of the suffering of the Croat people," Granic stressed. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been charged on both commanding and individual responsibility for crimes
ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - On behalf of the Croatian government, Vice-
Premier Goran Granic expressed satisfaction which the confirmation
of a charges against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic
for war crimes committed in Croatia.
"We are satisfied that the indictment confirmed everything we had
said about Milosevic and the Serbian aggression on Croatia," Granic
said.
The current Croatian government submitted more than 2,000
documents to the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal
connected with the case, as well as all material prepared for the
issuing of an indictment against Yugoslavia for genocide, Granic
said.
"It is characteristic for the indictment that it mentions crimes
committed in places which are symbols of the suffering of the Croat
people," Granic stressed.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been charged on
both commanding and individual responsibility for crimes committed
through the forcible removal of the Croat and other non-Serb
population from approximately one third of Croatian territory over
1991-2, with the aim of annexing said territory to a new, Serb-
dominated state.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) indictment against Milosevic was issued at The Hague on
Tuesday, charging him with crimes against humanity, grave breaches
of the Geneva conventions, and violations of the laws and customs of
war.
Milosevic is charged with the persecution of Croatia's population
between Aug. 1, 1991 and June 1992, including the "extermination or
murder of hundreds of Croat and other non-Serb civilians," the
imprisonment of thousands of Croat and other non-Serb civilians
within Croatia and in prison camps in Montenegro, Serbia, and
Bosnia, and the establishment of inhumane living conditions for the
population in Serb-controlled areas.
These are areas local Serb authorities had called SAO Krajina, SAO
Western Slavonia, SAO Slavonija, Baranja and Western Srijem, and
the Dubrovnik area.
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