MOSTAR MOSTAR, Jan 21 (Hina) - Herzeg-Bosnian Homeland War associations organised a rally in Mostar Friday in protest of recent prison sentences for five Croats from Central Bosnia issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chairman of the Herzeg-Bosnian Camp Prisoners' Association, Mirko Zelenika, read conclusions from the rally, asking that the Bosnian Croat political leadership cease their silence and define the goals of Bosnian Croats. The protesters also requested a review of "every form of cooperation with this and such an international community which chose to cooperate only with one side in Bosnia-Herzegovina". "We ask of the Bosnian Croat political leadership to voice their stance about the will of the Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina about a referendum aimed at establishing a Croat entity," the conclusions said. They also criticised the international community
MOSTAR, Jan 21 (Hina) - Herzeg-Bosnian Homeland War associations
organised a rally in Mostar Friday in protest of recent prison
sentences for five Croats from Central Bosnia issued by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Chairman of the Herzeg-Bosnian Camp Prisoners' Association, Mirko
Zelenika, read conclusions from the rally, asking that the Bosnian
Croat political leadership cease their silence and define the goals
of Bosnian Croats.
The protesters also requested a review of "every form of
cooperation with this and such an international community which
chose to cooperate only with one side in Bosnia-Herzegovina".
"We ask of the Bosnian Croat political leadership to voice their
stance about the will of the Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina
about a referendum aimed at establishing a Croat entity," the
conclusions said.
They also criticised the international community for not punishing
crimes committed by Moslems against Bosnian Croats.
Dragan Simunovic, a representative of displace Croats from Konjic,
said the ICTY swept under the carpet Moslem crimes against Konjic
Croats, where Bosnia-Herzegovina Army troops during the war killed
189 members of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and displaced
more than 10,000 Croats.
he recalled that on April 16, 1993 (the same day of the killing of
Moslems in Ahmici in Central Bosnia) Moslem troops had in the
village of Dusine, near Konjic, killed 15 Croat civilians and seven
imprisoned HVO soldiers, for which nobody has been held
responsible.
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