ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan on Friday described the sentence against General Tihomir Blaskic by the Hague Tribunal as "severe". "I am not acquainted with the details of the sentence. This is without
doubt a severe punishment which I believe is possible to be reviewed in the appeals procedure," Racan told reporters after a meeting with the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik. The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday sentenced Tihomir Blaskic, former commander of the central Bosnian Operative Zone, to 45 years in prison for crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the Croat-Moslem war in Central Bosnia between May 1992 and January 1994. "Such a sentence must be backed by facts, I believe in what was done, but I advocate for the sentence to
ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan on
Friday described the sentence against General Tihomir Blaskic by
the Hague Tribunal as "severe".
"I am not acquainted with the details of the sentence. This is
without doubt a severe punishment which I believe is possible to be
reviewed in the appeals procedure," Racan told reporters after a
meeting with the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad
Dodik.
The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday sentenced Tihomir Blaskic, former
commander of the central Bosnian Operative Zone, to 45 years in
prison for crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or
customs of war, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during
the Croat-Moslem war in Central Bosnia between May 1992 and January
1994.
"Such a sentence must be backed by facts, I believe in what was done,
but I advocate for the sentence to be reviewed," Racan added.
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