After being sworn in for a second four-year term yesterday, Bajic announced that one of the priorities in the work of county prosecutor's offices would be the punishment of war crimes, with special emphasis on the prosecution of those with command responsibility.
According to the media, Bajic said in a note to those invited to the meeting that crimes against Croatian civilians and prisoners, for example at camps in Vojnic, Croatia, Srijemska Mitrovica, Serbia, and Bileca, Bosnia, had been covered fragmentarily and primarily on the level of the immediate perpetrator.
According to State Prosecutor's Office figures from early 2005, 3,579 criminal proceedings for war crimes were launched, 1,418 persons were accused, 604 were convicted and 299 acquitted. A total of 1,107 suspects or accused are at large. Reports, indictments and convictions referred mostly to Serbs.