ZAGREB, Aug 30 (Hina) - Croatia's former interior minister spoke to Hina on Wednesday in connection with claims the Interior Ministry made in today's statement on a Hague war crimes tribunal request demanding protection for Milan
Levar and his family. I should see the Interior Ministry's documentation because it is difficult to say what was received, the former minister, Ivan Penic, told Hina. The Interior Ministry issued a statement today saying Penic's Cabinet received the request by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in April 1998, that the Cabinet forwarded it into regular procedure, but that the request failed to reach the county police department which was to protect Levar. Security in Lika-Senj County in my time was on such a level "that Levar was alive and kicking," said Penic. "If we are to find who is responsible for Levar's death, then we should look
ZAGREB, Aug 30 (Hina) - Croatia's former interior minister spoke to
Hina on Wednesday in connection with claims the Interior Ministry
made in today's statement on a Hague war crimes tribunal request
demanding protection for Milan Levar and his family.
I should see the Interior Ministry's documentation because it is
difficult to say what was received, the former minister, Ivan
Penic, told Hina.
The Interior Ministry issued a statement today saying Penic's
Cabinet received the request by the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in April 1998, that the Cabinet
forwarded it into regular procedure, but that the request failed to
reach the county police department which was to protect Levar.
Security in Lika-Senj County in my time was on such a level "that
Levar was alive and kicking," said Penic.
"If we are to find who is responsible for Levar's death, then we
should look in the current state of security, as we should for the
increased number of people killed on roads and the huge number of
wildfires in relation to past periods," said Penic, a parliamentary
representative of the formerly ruling Croatian Democratic Union
party.
The former interior minister said that during his mandate, security
in Lika-Senj County was given special attention.
Milan Levar, who testified before ICTY investigators in connection
with alleged crimes committed against Serb civilians in Gospic, was
killed this Monday after a bomb went off in the yard of his house in
Gospic.
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