CRO HOMELAND WAR VETERANS DEMAND AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON COOPERATION WITH ICTY

ZAGREB, April 12 (Hina) - "We demand an urgent session of the Croatian National Sabor which would discuss the protection of the dignity of the Homeland War and Croatian Homeland War soldiers, and amendments to the constitutional law on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia", heads of the association of the union of county associations of the Croatian Homeland War Veterans (HVIDRA) told a press conference on Wednesday. HVIDRA president Marinko Liovic told reporters he demanded that the new authorities amend the constitutional law on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal and reiterated the opposition of the HVIDRA to the departure of Croatian military officials to The Hague. The arrival of ICTY investigators in the central Croatian town of Gospic due to their engagement in the exhumation of an alleged mass grave is inappropriate, particularly towards Croatian Homeland War soldiers, he stressed. President of the HVIDRA executive committee Ivica Perkovic opposed to the attitude of the Croatian authorities towards the international community from which the Croatian Government received funds only for the return of Serbs. (hina) it mm