ZAGREB, May 14 (Hina) - Retired Major General Mate Lausic, who was military police chief from 1991 to 2000, on Friday morning continued his interview with investigators of the UN war crimes tribunal in the tribunal's office in
Zagreb.
ZAGREB, May 14 (Hina) - Retired Major General Mate Lausic, who was
military police chief from 1991 to 2000, on Friday morning continued
his interview with investigators of the UN war crimes tribunal in the
tribunal's office in Zagreb.#L#
Before entering the office of the ICTY shortly before 09:00 hrs
Friday, Lausic again declined to speak to the press.
After the end of the first day of the interrogation on Thursday
evening, Lausic declined to respond to reporters' questions about the
nine-hour-long interview. No answer was given either about the
capacity in which Lausic was being interviewed or about tomorrow's
continuation of the interview. The Justice Ministry and defence
lawyers also declined to answer if Lausic was interviewed as a witness
or a suspect.
Assistant Justice Minister Jaksa Muljacic, who is in charge of
cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY), said last night that he could not say anything if
Gen. Lausic himself did not want to give any statement.
Lausic was not accompanied by his lawyer Jadranka Slokovic when he
entered the ICTY office for the interrogation on the first and the
second day, which could be interpreted that he was being interviewed
as a witness.
It was previously reported that the ICTY was interested in
interviewing Lausic in connection with the 1993 Medak Pocket
Operation, as well as operations Storm and Flash that were carried out
in 1995.
According to unofficial sources, Lausic brought along documents to the
interview evidencing measures that had been taken by the military
police against alleged perpetrators of crimes committed during and in
the wake of the liberating operations.
(Hina) ms