Speaking at a press conference in the northern Adriatic city of Rijeka, Kajin said that the state leadership was aware of French court verdicts against the fugitive general, but that it had done nothing about it for several reasons.
"Gotovina was protected, because he was close with (wartime defence minister) Gojko Susak and was an unassailable authority in the Croatian Army, and he should have been stripped of his rank and status," Kajin said.
He presented his party's draft declaration on antifascism, which was forwarded to Parliament last week. He said that the declaration underlined the need for "the relevant truth about the Second World War and the antifascist struggle of the Croatian and other peoples in the region to be incorporated into school textbooks".
The IDS demands that the remaining monuments to antifascist fighters be protected and those that have been destroyed be repaired. It also wants participants in the 1941-1945 National Liberation War to be given equal rights as participants in the 1991-1995 Homeland War.