"Instead of establishing the responsibility (for war crimes), the attention of the public is being focused on people who have decided on their own to damage their own health rather than on people who could not decide whether they would drink (battery) acid in garages or whether they would remove sellotape from their own mouths," reads the NGOS' statement, alluding to the way in which some of the victims, mentioned in the indictments against Glavas, had died.
According to the statement the NGOs issued on Friday, the hunger strike of the six indictees in the Sellotape case is directed against institutions that guarantee the rule of law and the purpose of their action is to ensure a privileged treatment for themselves.
The four NGOs engaged in the protection of human rights also warned that some war veterans' associations were exerting pressure on the judiciary through their insistence on the removal of Mladen Bajic from the post of the Chief State Prosecutor.