SPLIT, Nov 8 (Hina) - A journalist from Split this week presented +his book about Bosniak Muslim crimes against Bosnian Croats +committed during the Croat-Muslim conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina +between 1992 and 1994.+ Entitled "Sealed
Crime - The Genocide and War Crimes of Bosniak +Muslim Forces Against Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina", the book +lists the names of 1,606 Bosnian Croats against whom, author Ivica +Mlivoncic states, Bosniak Muslims committed war crimes.+ The victims are from areas of the recent conflict between the Army +of BH and the Croatian Defence Council (HVO), mainly in central +Bosnia.+ The listed victims include 968 civilians, among them 120 children, +while the rest are captured HVO soldiers, said Mlivoncic while +presenting his book. He believes, however, these figures are not +final.+ Published by the Zagreb-based Centre for Collecting Documentation +and Processing o
SPLIT, Nov 8 (Hina) - A journalist from Split this week presented
his book about Bosniak Muslim crimes against Bosnian Croats
committed during the Croat-Muslim conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina
between 1992 and 1994.
Entitled "Sealed Crime - The Genocide and War Crimes of Bosniak
Muslim Forces Against Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina", the book
lists the names of 1,606 Bosnian Croats against whom, author Ivica
Mlivoncic states, Bosniak Muslims committed war crimes.
The victims are from areas of the recent conflict between the Army
of BH and the Croatian Defence Council (HVO), mainly in central
Bosnia.
The listed victims include 968 civilians, among them 120 children,
while the rest are captured HVO soldiers, said Mlivoncic while
presenting his book. He believes, however, these figures are not
final.
Published by the Zagreb-based Centre for Collecting Documentation
and Processing of Data Related to the Homeland War and the Split
branch office of "Napredak", a Croatian cultural association,
Mlivoncic's book also contains a list of Bosniak Muslim crime
suspects.
The crimes are broken down by municipalities, while the book also
brings a chronology of the HVO-Army of BH conflict, a tabular
presentation of victims and displaced persons, and texts on "ritual
killings" and the "Army of BH myth."
Collecting materials for the book, the author consulted some 6,000
documents.
"I wanted to show that Bosnian Croats too were the victims of
Bosniak Muslim crimes, and to prevent them from being forgotten,"
Mlivoncic said.
According to Zvonimir Separovic, president of the Croatian
Victimology Society, "objectivity is the greatest value of
Mlivoncic's book. This scientific work is an unavoidable document
about both Croatia and the international community."
"Mlivoncic's book is the best means of countering the dangerous
stereotypes stating that alongside Serbs, Croats were the only ones
committing crimes in BH, and that the Army of BH is innocent," said
Marinko Skobic, an attorney from Mostar and chairman of a
commission researching war crimes in southern BH.
Skobic also recalled that the international war crimes tribunal in
The Hague had still not indicted any crime committed against
Bosnian Croats.
He assessed the tribunal's functioning as subject to "politics of
UN Security Council member-countries."
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