Serbia
Complains of
Reversal
of Conviction
of Croatians,
Who Killed
These People?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 5 --
Mass murder
and war crimes
nearly 20
years ago
echoed through
the UN
Security
Council on
Wednesday
evening. In a
session on the
ad hoc
tribunals,
three of the
last four
speakers were
Serbia,
Croatia, and
Bosnia.
Serbia
blasted
the reversal
of the
convictions of
former
Croatian
general
Ante Gotovina
and security
chief Mladen
Markac for
their roles in
Operation
Storm in 1995.
Already,
General
Assembly
President Vuk
Jeremic has
set up and
tweeted about
a debate on
the topic in
April,
it's said with
the intent to
bring in some
who fled in
1995. In
Wednesday's
speech, the
Serbian
representative
asked again
and again,
"Who killed
these people?"
It's
worth
revisiting
what Gotovina
told Croatian
leader Franjo
Tudman: "A
large number
of civilians
are already
evacuating
Knin and
heading
towards Banja
Luka and
Belgrade. That
means that if
we continue
this
pressure,
probably for
some time to
come, there
won’t be so
many
civilians just
those who have
to stay, who
have no
possibility of
leaving." See
here,
page 5.
Serbs
committed war
crimes, for
sure, for
example in
Vukovar as
simply one
example. But
what is this Gotovina
to Tudman
quote, if
not a Joint
Criminal
Enterprise? We
will cover the
April
sesssion, and
the run-up.
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
because new
news is more
newsy, Inner
City Press
asked the
Croatian
representative
about his
recent letter,
along
with Austria,
about attacks
in Syria.
He
acknowledged
it, but said
Croatia would
stay as long
as possible.
We'll see.
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