Appeals ruling in Gotovina-Markac case can range from acquittal to upholding first-instance verdict

ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - Rulings which the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) may deliver on Friday in the case of Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, who were sentenced by the trial chamber to 24 and 18 years respectively, can range from acquittals, if the appeals chamber rules that there was no joint criminal enterprise, to the confirmation of the trial chamber's guilty verdict for war crimes committed during and after Operation Storm which crushed a Serb insurgency in central and southern Croatia in the summer of 1995.