Janko Bobetko
Zagreb Postpones Naming Street After Wartime General
Zlatko Hasanbegovic, head of Zagreb’s committee for naming streets, said that a proposal to honour 1990s general Janko Bobetko had been withdrawn, but denied any connection to a protest by rights activists.
Zagreb Urged Not to Honour Croatian Wartime General
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights urged Zagreb not to name a street after Janko Bobetko, a deceased Croatian general who was named as a part of a wartime joint criminal enterprise by the Hague Tribunal.
Hague: Croatia's top leaders, part of criminal enterprise
This was announced in a statement for the media late on Wednesday, after the Appeals Chamber announced the final verdicts against Prilic and five other wartime Bosnian Croat leaders.
Their guilty verdicts for the persecution of Muslims (Bosniaks) in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1993 until 1994 were confirmed, as well as the prison terms, ranging from ten to 25 years.
Bosnian Croat Wartime Leaders Appeal Against Convictions
Jadranko Prlic, the former prime minister of the unrecognised wartime Herzeg-Bosna Croatian Community, is the first of the six Bosnian Croat ex-officials to launch an appeal on Monday against war crimes convictions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY in The Hague.