The highest levels of the Croatian government secretly worked to seize part of Bosnia while pretending friendship with the Bosnian government, according to documents prosecutors have asked to be admitted as evidence in the case against six officials of the Croatians living in Bosnia currently standing trial in The Hague.
The documents, transcripts of the then Croatian President F.Tudjman’s conversations, show Croatian officials believed the West supported it in its undercover bid "to prevent a Muslim state being created in Europe".
Croatian war criminals Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic were senior political and paramilitary leaders of the self-proclaimed Croatian fascist creature in Bosnia known as "Herceg Bosna".
They face 26 charges of war crimes for the expulsion and murder of the Bosnian civilians during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia in the early 1990's.
They are also accused of being part of a joint criminal enterprise to politically and militarily subjugate Bosnians and other non-Croatians from some parts of Bosnia and to join that territory of Bosnia to a “Greater Croatia”.
Involved in this criminal enterprise were the Croatian President F.Tudjman, former Croatian Defence Minister G.Susak and M.Boban, president of the fascist Croatian creature in Bosnia "the HB". All three Croatian war criminals are now deceased.
On October 29, the prosecutors asked the judges to admit into evidence 87 transcripts of the Croatian President Tudjman’s meetings with various people that took place at the time relevant to the indictment.
Most of these transcripts have already been admitted in part or in full as evidence in other trials held at the Hague tribunal.
Several of the transcripts record how Tudjman ordered regular Croatian troops to be secretly sent to Bosnia to set up checkpoints and to support the Croatians living there.
“Gentlemen, we’ve succeeded, we’ve succeeded in getting not just Herceg Bosna, which is what we had. We’ve (now) got,we can say this among ourselves,half of Bosnia, if we’re good at governing it, if we govern cleverly,” said the Croatian President F.Tudjman at a meeting with representatives of the fascist Croatian creature in Bosnia "the HB",on November 24, 1995.
Tudjman also regularly referred to Croatia as being on the front line against the expansion of Islam, and even expressed sympathy for the genocidal Serbian aggressor because Serbians are Christians.
“Europe and the world are a bit afraid of… the creation of an Islamic (state) in Europe. So that they would even be inclined for a division (of Bosnia) to be carried out between Croatia and Serbia in order to avoid having that separate Muslim state, you know,” said F.Tudjman on January 8, 1992.
The judges are expected to rule soon on whether all these transcripts will be admitted into evidence against Croatian war criminals Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic.
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Stjepan Mesic has received a letter the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which expressed outrage at the way the funeral of a former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp, Dinko Sakic, was organized.
The Center criticized a speech held by a Catholic priest at Sakic's funeral in Zagreb last week.
Center writes that the idea of burying in an Ustasha uniform a former commander of the Jasenovac camp, one of the most horrendous camps in Europe during the WWII, is a gross insult to all victims of the Ustasha regime as well as to all decent people with a conscience.
Many innocent Serbs, Jews and Croat anti-fascists were killed in the camp, The center considers it outrageous for a priest to praise the camp commander as a model to all Croatians.
Zuroff calls on Mesic to openly condemn the funeral's organizers and the priest who led the religious rites.
Prompted by the letter, the Office of the President recalled that the Croatian head of state had repeatedly deplored in an unequivocal manner all crimes committed by the Ustasha regime, branding it as a criminal regime.
Mesic's remarks naturally also refer to Sakic, who was one of the commanders of the Jasenovac camp and who was convicted by the Croatian judiciary as a war criminal, the office said.
President Mesic expects relevant state institutions to take appropriate measures to prevent Sakic's funeral, which was shamelessly exploited for the rehabilitation of the Ustasha movement, from inflicting damage to Croatia's reputation in the world and from producing a long-term detrimental effect on a part of disoriented young people, says the office.
In light of the fact that during the performance of religious rites priests do not act as private individuals, it is impossible to interpret the speech held at Sakic's funeral as the priest's personal position, the office said.
According to some media in Croatia, priest Lasic said during Sakic's funeral that "the court that convicted Sakic, also convicted Croatia and the Croatian people". The priest said that Sakic was a member of the Ustasha movement which "restored the Croatian state on 10 April 1941" and that every honest Croatian should be proud of him.
The 87-year-old Sakic died in Zagreb's Dubrava Hospital on 20 July after a long and serious illness. He was extradited from Argentina in 1998, after which a Zagreb court sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment for war crimes against civilians.
He had been serving his sentence in Lepoglava Prison before he was transferred to the Zagreb hospital on account of poor health.
After a six-month trial that ended in October 1999, the Zagreb County Court found Sakic guilty of ordering and carrying out acts of torture and murder and of failing to prevent and punish crimes committed by his subordinates. He was also convicted of personally shooting dead four inmates and ordering the hanging of 22.
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Stjepan Mesic has received a letter the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which expressed outrage at the way the funeral of a former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp, Dinko Sakic, was organized.
The Center criticized a speech held by a Catholic priest at Sakic's funeral in Zagreb last week.
Center writes that the idea of burying in an Ustasha uniform a former commander of the Jasenovac camp, one of the most horrendous camps in Europe during the WWII, is a gross insult to all victims of the Ustasha regime as well as to all decent people with a conscience.
Many innocent Serbs, Jews and Croat anti-fascists were killed in the camp, The center considers it outrageous for a priest to praise the camp commander as a model to all Croatians.
Zuroff calls on Mesic to openly condemn the funeral's organizers and the priest who led the religious rites.
Prompted by the letter, the Office of the President recalled that the Croatian head of state had repeatedly deplored in an unequivocal manner all crimes committed by the Ustasha regime, branding it as a criminal regime.
Mesic's remarks naturally also refer to Sakic, who was one of the commanders of the Jasenovac camp and who was convicted by the Croatian judiciary as a war criminal, the office said.
President Mesic expects relevant state institutions to take appropriate measures to prevent Sakic's funeral, which was shamelessly exploited for the rehabilitation of the Ustasha movement, from inflicting damage to Croatia's reputation in the world and from producing a long-term detrimental effect on a part of disoriented young people, says the office.
In light of the fact that during the performance of religious rites priests do not act as private individuals, it is impossible to interpret the speech held at Sakic's funeral as the priest's personal position, the office said.
According to some media in Croatia, priest Lasic said during Sakic's funeral that "the court that convicted Sakic, also convicted Croatia and the Croatian people". The priest said that Sakic was a member of the Ustasha movement which "restored the Croatian state on 10 April 1941" and that every honest Croatian should be proud of him.
The 87-year-old Sakic died in Zagreb's Dubrava Hospital on 20 July after a long and serious illness. He was extradited from Argentina in 1998, after which a Zagreb court sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment for war crimes against civilians.
He had been serving his sentence in Lepoglava Prison before he was transferred to the Zagreb hospital on account of poor health.
After a six-month trial that ended in October 1999, the Zagreb County Court found Sakic guilty of ordering and carrying out acts of torture and murder and of failing to prevent and punish crimes committed by his subordinates. He was also convicted of personally shooting dead four inmates and ordering the hanging of 22.
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