ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - Scientists and professors' independent trade union "is consternated at the sentence passed by the Hague-based international Tribunal on General Tihomir Blaskic." "Blaskic's guilt is that his failure (to do)",
while so high sentence shows that it was a trial of one policy rather than of one man, read a statement released by the trade union on Sunday. On Friday the International War Crimes for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) imposed sentence of 45 years in prison for Blaskic, explaining he was responsible individually and as a commander for some crimes in central Bosnia in 1943. "Tihomir Blaskic may be guilty of failing to try to punish criminals," said the trade union justifying his failure by its assertion that at those times, Blaskic's attempt to punish such criminals would have probably led to his own murder. In addition, the union posed the question whether rep
ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - Scientists and professors' independent
trade union "is consternated at the sentence passed by the Hague-
based international Tribunal on General Tihomir Blaskic."
"Blaskic's guilt is that his failure (to do)", while so high
sentence shows that it was a trial of one policy rather than of one
man, read a statement released by the trade union on Sunday.
On Friday the International War Crimes for former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
imposed sentence of 45 years in prison for Blaskic, explaining he
was responsible individually and as a commander for some crimes in
central Bosnia in 1943.
"Tihomir Blaskic may be guilty of failing to try to punish
criminals," said the trade union justifying his failure by its
assertion that at those times, Blaskic's attempt to punish such
criminals would have probably led to his own murder.
In addition, the union posed the question whether representatives
of the international community should then also answer before the
ICTY for their failure to prevent crimes while they could
"inhumanely rationally" observe the destruction of the eastern
Croatian town of Vukovar, the world heritage in Dubrovnik and mass
murder in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The union stressed that it had supported trials of real war
criminals regardless of their national origins and backed the
existence of the Hague Tribunal and Croatia's cooperation with it.
"Despite severe and unjust sentence for Tihomir Blaskic, Croatia's
cooperation with the Hague Tribunal should not be brought in
question," read the statement.
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