ZAGREB, Aug 29 (Hina) - The Civilian Committee for Human Rights (GOLJP) on Tuesday expressed "utter concern" over the violent demise of a witness for the international war crimes tribunal, Milan Levar, adding it expected the
authorities to carry out a thorough investigation and determine the circumstances of his death. GOLJP president Zoran Pusic stressed this was in the interest of creating a law-based state, relations with the Hague-based tribunal and Croatia's global position. In Tuesday's press release Pusic asserts the practice of assassination of those who denounce crime and its hushing up did not begin yesterday in Croatia. "The practice of revenge is truly at work here, but the revenge of those who are responsible for the catastrophic state in which Croatia is today and in whose interest it is that the truth about certain wrongdoing in the past decade be kept under wraps," the statement said. "In thi
ZAGREB, Aug 29 (Hina) - The Civilian Committee for Human Rights
(GOLJP) on Tuesday expressed "utter concern" over the violent
demise of a witness for the international war crimes tribunal,
Milan Levar, adding it expected the authorities to carry out a
thorough investigation and determine the circumstances of his
death.
GOLJP president Zoran Pusic stressed this was in the interest of
creating a law-based state, relations with the Hague-based
tribunal and Croatia's global position.
In Tuesday's press release Pusic asserts the practice of
assassination of those who denounce crime and its hushing up did not
begin yesterday in Croatia.
"The practice of revenge is truly at work here, but the revenge of
those who are responsible for the catastrophic state in which
Croatia is today and in whose interest it is that the truth about
certain wrongdoing in the past decade be kept under wraps," the
statement said.
"In this context, besides the murder of Milan Levar, we are also
witnesses of the infiltration of neo-fascists and racists into non-
government organisations, where, with the shameful support of the
responsible ministry, with to usurp the name, place and role of the
Croatian Helsinki Committee for human rights," the statement
read.
Milan Levar, who voluntarily testified before the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia about alleged crimes
over Serb civilians at the onset of the war in Croatia, died in an
explosion in the yard of his home in Gospic Monday.
Lika-Senj County Court investigative judge Pavo Rukavina is
carrying out the investigation at the scene of the explosion.
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