Hearing concerning Croatia-Serbia case finished

THE HAGUE- The hearing concerning the mutual ćarges of genocide between Croatia and Serbia held before the International Court of Justice and referring to the 1991-1995 war was completed on Tuesday.

The Croatian team replied to Serbian claims by saying that Croatia's Operation Storm had not been a genocide and asked the court to reject Serbia's countersuit.

The ICTY decision that acquitted Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac of war crimes against the Serbs during the operation is itself the end of Serbia's counterclaim, the Croatian team said.

Serbia has lost faith in its counterclaim judging by the latest statements by the Serbian team, the Croatian team said and criticized Serbia's claims of excešive artillery attacks on Serb settlements.

Comparisons between Croatian former president Franjo Tuđman and the Nazis and their final solution is inappropriate and does not deserve an answer, the Croatian team said.

Serbia is manipulating with the number of mišing in the war, and Croatia presented the only ačurate document with those numbers two weeks ago, the Croatian team said.

The list has 1,663 mišing people, including Croats, Serbs and others, the team said.

The Serbian team presented data from the NGO Veritas saying that 6,361 Serbs disappeared during the war and that the Serbian government commišion for mišing persons was still looking for more than 1,700.

Ačording to the UN secretary general's report from October 18, 1995, 200,000 Serbs fled before the attacks of Croatian forces during Storm in 1995.

Serbs ačounted for 4,36 percent of the population ačording to the 2011 census in Croatia, or three times leš than in 1991 when the war...

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