ICTY rules joint criminal enterprise committed in Herceg-Bosna

ZAGREB, May 29 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) trial chamber in the case of six wartime Bosnian Croat leaders -- Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, generals Milivoj Petkovic and Slobodan Praljak, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic, found by majority, with the Presiding Judge Jean Claude Antonetti dissenting, that the conflict between the Croat Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993 and 1994 was an international conflict and that crimes had been committed in the territory controlled by Herceg-Bosna within a joint criminal enterprise involving some of Croatia's top officials, including the then President Franjo Tudjman.