Sacic told a news conference the incumbent government was turning wartime commanders of Croatia's defence from victims of a military aggression into war criminals.
He said that at the beginning of the military aggression, Brodarac was at the helm of the defence forces when two thirds of the Banovina region were occupied by the Yugoslav People's Army and Serb rebels.
According to Sacic, of 94,000 Croats in that region, 65,000 were forced to leave their homes in 1991. In addition, 500 Croats were killed and later 39 mass graves were unearthed. In this context, he mentioned atrocities in Bacin, Dvor, Petrinja and Glina committed by the occupying forces.
Sacic said that Chief State Prosecutor Bajic was under pressure from the chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague (ICTY), Serge Brammertz, who Sacic said had granted Ratko Mladic amnesty for war crimes in Croatia.
Professor Josip Jurcevic said that Brodarac was arrested only because he had defended his country and its citizens.
Jurcevic recalled that of 150 multiple graves with victims of the aggression, 40 were in the area of Sisak.
Brodarac, Vlado Milankovic and Drago Bosnjak are suspected of war crimes against Serb civilians in Sisak in 1991 and 1992 and they were brought before the Osijek County Court for a hearing by an investigating judge this afternoon.
ABH vice president Maks Slavicek said that currently there were 40 Serbs, convicted of war crimes, in Croatian prisons, while at the same time 347 Croats, who defended their country against the Serb aggression, were also kept in those prisons.