HSP CALLS ON VETERANS NOT TO BECOME HOSTAGES TO GOVT POLICY

ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) on Thursday issued a proclamation calling on all patriots and Homeland War volunteers not to yield to blackmail and not to become hostages to government policy. The Proclamation for the Defence of the Homeland War and Its Values states HSP's protests are directed against government policy and not against the state we have created. Read out by HSP president Anto Djapic, the Proclamation says Croatia's policy following last decade's Homeland War has been determined by the General Amnesty Law and the Constitutional Law on cooperation with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The reasons of HSP's objections to the said laws lie in the indictments and sentences by The Hague tribunal, as in the case of the 45-year imprisonment sentence for Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic. The HSP Proclamation says the two laws turn Croatia's victory into defeat, as indicated by recent activities of The Hague tribunal's investigators in Gospic, central Croatia, and other activities which the government allows and even incites. Djapic today refuted media allegations which bring HSP's activities in connection with recent road blockade announcements by Marinko Liovic, the president of the Croatian Homeland War Military Invalids association. The HSP announced civil disobedience, pointing out its aim would not be the destabilisation of Croatia, but the destabilisation of the government which, Djapic said, was the duty of every Opposition party. (hina) ha mm