MOSTAR, Jan 25 (Hina) - Bosnian Croat leader Ante Jelavic on Monday announced he would meet Stabilisation Force commander Montgomery Meigs on Tuesday to discuss the contentious appointments of two Croatian Defence Council generals to
commanding posts in the Croat component of the Bosnian Federation's Croat-Muslim army. Jelavic told reporters the suspension of the two generals, Zeljko Siljeg and Mijo Zlatan Jelic, could be discussed in case of actual evidence that they had acted contrary to the Dayton peace agreement or that they had committed acts during the recent conflict which might make them war crimes suspects. Jelavic said his recent decision on Siljeg's and Jelic's appointments had to date not been revoked. He called on The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to "be equal to all sides". He assessed as "incomprehensible" the preparations of Bosnian Muslims t
MOSTAR, Jan 25 (Hina) - Bosnian Croat leader Ante Jelavic on Monday
announced he would meet Stabilisation Force commander Montgomery
Meigs on Tuesday to discuss the contentious appointments of two
Croatian Defence Council generals to commanding posts in the Croat
component of the Bosnian Federation's Croat-Muslim army.
Jelavic told reporters the suspension of the two generals, Zeljko
Siljeg and Mijo Zlatan Jelic, could be discussed in case of actual
evidence that they had acted contrary to the Dayton peace agreement
or that they had committed acts during the recent conflict which
might make them war crimes suspects.
Jelavic said his recent decision on Siljeg's and Jelic's
appointments had to date not been revoked.
He called on The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia to "be equal to all sides".
He assessed as "incomprehensible" the preparations of Bosnian
Muslims to try at the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo the crimes of
Bosnian Muslim units against Croats in Grabovica, a village 20km
north-west of Mostar, southern Bosnia, five and half years ago.
Jelavic said that if suspects were to be tried in Bosnian courts,
the Grabovica crime should fall under the jurisdiction of the
Mostar-based Herzegovina-Neretva Cantonal Court.
Commenting on the latest Croatian-Bosnian border disputes, the
Bosnian Croat leader said they were not accidental, but a
"systematic approach to the Croat people as a whole, especially to
Croats in Bosnia."
He pointed to "the obvious endeavours of certain circles in the
international community to not ensure Bosnian Croats' guaranteed
rights."
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