SINJ, Dec 7 (Hina) - War veterans from the southern Cetina River region have condemned the statements and actions of Tihomir Oreskovic and his defence attorneys before the Rijeka County Court regarding retired Croatian general Mirko
Norac. "We firmly believe in the innocence and determination of Homeland War hero Mirko Norac and condemn statements by Tihomir Oreskovic and his accusing Norac of trying to talk him into turning the prosecutor's evidence together," the war veterans said in a statement on Friday. "Requests to defer the trial and exclude the judge and the prosecutor constitute an attempt to sacrifice General Norac and transfer the trial to The Hague, where Norac would be the first on the indictment," the statement reads. The veterans believe statements made by Oreskovic's attorneys Bosiljko Misetic and Zeljko Olujic are aimed also at compromising Norac, "however, it is clear they will not
SINJ, Dec 7 (Hina) - War veterans from the southern Cetina River
region have condemned the statements and actions of Tihomir
Oreskovic and his defence attorneys before the Rijeka County Court
regarding retired Croatian general Mirko Norac.
"We firmly believe in the innocence and determination of Homeland
War hero Mirko Norac and condemn statements by Tihomir Oreskovic
and his accusing Norac of trying to talk him into turning the
prosecutor's evidence together," the war veterans said in a
statement on Friday.
"Requests to defer the trial and exclude the judge and the
prosecutor constitute an attempt to sacrifice General Norac and
transfer the trial to The Hague, where Norac would be the first on
the indictment," the statement reads.
The veterans believe statements made by Oreskovic's attorneys
Bosiljko Misetic and Zeljko Olujic are aimed also at compromising
Norac, "however, it is clear they will not succeed in belittling the
role of general Norac, who has not lost a single battle so far and
will not lose this one either."
Norac and Oreskovic are charged with war crimes against civilians
in the central Gospic area in late 1991.
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