Serbia prepares response to Croatia in genocide suit

Serbia has prepared a response to Croatia’s arguments against the Serbian counter-suit.

Izvor: Tanjug

Sunday, 23.10.2011.

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Serbia has prepared a response to Croatia’s arguments against the Serbian counter-suit. The document will be submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague by November 4 if the two sides do not reach a settlement before that. Serbia prepares response to Croatia in genocide suit Member of the Serbian legal team and Veritas NGO Head Savo Strbac believes that there will be no settlement because there is no good will for it within the Croatian government and that Serbia will certainly submit an addition to the counter-suit by November 4. According to Strbac, the fact that the Hague Tribunal convicted Croat Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac in April is one of Serbia’s trump cards. “The Hague Tribunal has determined that an ethnic cleansing through the joint criminal enterprise was conducted during the Operation Storm. The claim makes our job easier because it is a small step from ethnic cleansing to genocide, the genocidal intention just needs to be proven,” he pointed out. Strbac has said that the Serbian legal team had about 100 objections to Croatia’s lists of the killed and the missing. Among other things, there is a reasonable doubt that about 20 100-year-olds, whose names are on Croatia’s lists of the exhumed and identified persons, actually died of old age and illnesses. Croatia filed a suit against Serbia for aggression and genocide in 1999 and Serbia filed a counter-suit on January 2, 2010 for crimes against Serbs in Croatia from 1991 until 1995. Croatia responded to the counter-suit on December 20, 2010 and the brief that the Serbian legal team has prepared is a response to Croatia’s arguments. The International Court of Justice in The Hague

Serbia prepares response to Croatia in genocide suit

Member of the Serbian legal team and Veritas NGO Head Savo Štrbac believes that there will be no settlement because there is no good will for it within the Croatian government and that Serbia will certainly submit an addition to the counter-suit by November 4.

According to Štrbac, the fact that the Hague Tribunal convicted Croat Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač in April is one of Serbia’s trump cards.

“The Hague Tribunal has determined that an ethnic cleansing through the joint criminal enterprise was conducted during the Operation Storm. The claim makes our job easier because it is a small step from ethnic cleansing to genocide, the genocidal intention just needs to be proven,” he pointed out.

Štrbac has said that the Serbian legal team had about 100 objections to Croatia’s lists of the killed and the missing. Among other things, there is a reasonable doubt that about 20 100-year-olds, whose names are on Croatia’s lists of the exhumed and identified persons, actually died of old age and illnesses.

Croatia filed a suit against Serbia for aggression and genocide in 1999 and Serbia filed a counter-suit on January 2, 2010 for crimes against Serbs in Croatia from 1991 until 1995.

Croatia responded to the counter-suit on December 20, 2010 and the brief that the Serbian legal team has prepared is a response to Croatia’s arguments.

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