Linta: Croatian parliament declaration pressure on Serbia

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta stated on Thursday that that the declaration of the Croatian parliament on the case of indictee and leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj constitutes fresh pressure on Serbia so as to induce the country to assume all the guilt for the civil war and sufferings in Croatia in the period 1991-1995.

The declaration adopted by the Croatian parliament on Wednesday is a unilateral and unacceptable act, Linta said and added that the Croatian stand represents supreme cynicism and that the very temporary release of Seselj is an insult for the victims and their families.

An insult for Serb victims and their families is embodied in the scandalous decision the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) adopted back in November 2012, when it acquitted generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac although they are responsible for the crimes committed against Serbs during Operation Storm, Linta said and added that another insult is also the ethnically motivated and bias attitude of the Croatian judiciary which does not prosecute individuals responsible for war crimes committed against Serbs.

Linta called on the ICTY Prosecutor's Office to re-examine the final ruling in the case against Gotovina and others because legal conditions for this have been met as new evidence concerning the crimes committed during Operation Storm has been discovered.

Authorities exhumed 87 remains of Serb victims from two mass graves in Sibenik and Zadar, Linta said and called on the ICTY to admit it made a mistake and restage the proceedings in the case against Gotovina.

He noted that the declaration of the...