BELGRADE, April 28 (Hina) - A Belgrade-based association of Croatian Serbs on Friday forwarded a letter to the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague-based war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, demanding that she issue an indictment against
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic for "instigating and organising war crimes and genocide against Croatian citizens of Serb nationality." The Croatian Serb Office, which is headed by Mihajlo Vucinic, offers "adequate facts" to support its request, including Mesic's having held important offices in the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, the former Yugoslav federation and Croatia between 1990 and 1995 and that he "worked the entire time toward the break-up of the SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." The association accuses the Croatian president of forming and arming paramilitary units in Croatia for the war against the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). It r
BELGRADE, April 28 (Hina) - A Belgrade-based association of
Croatian Serbs on Friday forwarded a letter to the Chief Prosecutor
of the Hague-based war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, demanding
that she issue an indictment against Croatian President Stjepan
Mesic for "instigating and organising war crimes and genocide
against Croatian citizens of Serb nationality."
The Croatian Serb Office, which is headed by Mihajlo Vucinic,
offers "adequate facts" to support its request, including Mesic's
having held important offices in the Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ) party, the former Yugoslav federation and Croatia between
1990 and 1995 and that he "worked the entire time toward the break-
up of the SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
The association accuses the Croatian president of forming and
arming paramilitary units in Croatia for the war against the former
Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
It reminds the ICTY chief prosecutor that "as a senior HDZ official
and main associate to Franjo Tudjman" Mesic had carried out
propaganda activities "aimed at genocide against Serbs and their
exodus."
The association also claims that as Croatia's president Mesic had
not done anything to enable the return of Croatian Serb refugees,
"which constitutes the obstruction of decisions and agreements
between the international community and the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia."
The letter, forwarded only to some Belgrade media, contained no
other details.
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