ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - The county state prosecutor's office in the northern Adriatic city of Rijeka on Monday issued an indictment for war crimes against civilians against Mirko Norac, Tihomir Oreskovic, Ivica Rozic, Stjepan
Grandic, and Milan Canic, the State Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - The county state prosecutor's office in the
northern Adriatic city of Rijeka on Monday issued an indictment for
war crimes against civilians against Mirko Norac, Tihomir
Oreskovic, Ivica Rozic, Stjepan Grandic, and Milan Canic, the State
Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.#L#
The indictment charges the five accused of ordering, and some of
them of personally participating in the killings of civilians in
the Gospic area, central Croatia, between 14 and 25 October 1991,
which resulted in the death of 24 persons whose identity has not
been established, as well as of a certain number of people whose
identity is being established, thereby committing the criminal act
against humanity and international law, namely war crimes against
civilians, said a statement signed by chief state prosecutor
Radovan Ortinsky.
The statement does not name Joso Miletic, Ivan Jovanovic, and
Martin Markovic, who were investigated in connection with the same
crimes over the last six months, during which time Rijeka County
Court investigating judge Sajonara Culina interviewed some 140
witnesses.
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