ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The re-opening of the 'Pakracka Poljana case' is being considered, Croatian Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic said in Zagreb on Wednesday. "That is underway," Ivanisevic said in a short statement at a news
conference called on the occasion of the beginning of the trial of Zagreb mobsters. Ivanisevic said he could not say anything else about the case. In 1992 Amnesty International reported about arbitrary arrests, abductions and alleged killings of Serb civilians by a Croatian police unit in Pakracka Poljana in 1991. The Croatian judiciary issued an indictment against six members of the unit after one of them, Miro Bajramovic, gave an interview about the case to 'Feral Tribune' weekly in 1997. Two of the indicted, including Bajramovic, were found guilty of destruction of property and illegal arrest in May 1999. Bajramovic was sentenced to a year and eight months in prison while
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The re-opening of the 'Pakracka Poljana case'
is being considered, Croatian Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic
said in Zagreb on Wednesday.
"That is underway," Ivanisevic said in a short statement at a news
conference called on the occasion of the beginning of the trial of
Zagreb mobsters.
Ivanisevic said he could not say anything else about the case.
In 1992 Amnesty International reported about arbitrary arrests,
abductions and alleged killings of Serb civilians by a Croatian
police unit in Pakracka Poljana in 1991.
The Croatian judiciary issued an indictment against six members of
the unit after one of them, Miro Bajramovic, gave an interview about
the case to 'Feral Tribune' weekly in 1997. Two of the indicted,
including Bajramovic, were found guilty of destruction of property
and illegal arrest in May 1999. Bajramovic was sentenced to a year
and eight months in prison while the other indictee, Branko Zaric,
was sentenced to a prison term of one year.
(hina) rml