BOOK ON MOSLEM CRIMES AGAINST CROATS PRESENTED IN MOSTAR

MOSTAR, Oct 5 (Hina) - The Mostar-based centre for investigation and documentation on Monday evening officially presented the book entitled "Dossier - Crimes Committed by Moslem Troops Against Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992 to 1994". Marinko Skobic, an employee with the centre, said crimes committed in Bosnia during the last war would for long time cause pricks of conscience of all three people, and it is necessary to establish the truth for healing the wounds. Skobic said it would be devastating to speak of the collective guilt of one people for committed crimes and therefore he advocated the individualisation of the responsibility. Skobic criticised the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) and blamed the ICTY for "a failure to set up a balance between committed crimes and issued indictments." Therefore, according to him, principles (independence, impartiality, objectivity, and legality) on which the ICTY's work should be based are brought into question. He advised that "the Hague Tribunal must not become an instrument of high politics or means of pressure for the accomplishment of political goals." He cautioned that in case the Hague Tribunal fails to identify perpetrators of most serious war crimes, the people-victim may become to blame the entire other people and this would be pernicious for the coexistence in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Reconciliation would not be possible then, Skobic concluded. (hina) jn ms