If something was an organised criminal enterprise, that was the Greater Serbia military aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Those people were synonymous with that, the organisers and executors, Karamarko said, adding that he feared the acquittal led to an equation of guilt, "which is very, very dangerous."
He said he saw the acquittal in the light of the ICTY's conviction pending appeal of six former Bosnian Croat officials yesterday, adding that he was confident that the final ruling would be different.
Karamarko said he believed that "in the case of the Serb occupiers and those who aspired to take the territories of others, who exposed the Bosnian people, Muslims and Croats, as well as Croats in Croatia to a policy of genocide, (the ICTY prosecution) will prove something else."
Today's acquittal is an insult to all those killed in Croatia's Homeland War and the ICTY "has once again proved that it is first and foremost a political court," a war veteran representative from Vukovar, Ivan Kovacic, told Hina.
The president of the HDLSKL association of former Croatian POWs in Serb-run camps, Danijel Rehak, said Stanisic and Simatovic "conceived and carried out everything that happened to us before the military aggression on Vukovar."