Glavaš "would have preferred" Hague trial

Convicted Croatian war criminal Branimir Glavas says he would have preferred to have been tried at the Hague Tribunal. Earlier this month, a Zagreb court found him guilty and sentenced him to ten years in jail for his role in the torture and murder of Serb civilians in eastern Croatia. Glavas "would have preferred" Hague trial Glavas, who is also a Croatian MP and has in the meantime been stripped of his immunity, immediately fled the country and is now in neighboring Bosnia. "I wish that the Hague Tribunal had asked for me and that the process was led there. My trial would have been more fair and just, and it would certainly ended with my acquittal," he told Belgrade daily Politika. Glavas described Croatia's justice system as "remote-operated by politics, while [PM] Ivo Sanader holds the remote control in all the processes that are of so-called state interest". He once again protested his innocence, adding that the war crimes that had taken place in the town of Osijek at the start of the 1990s war in Croatia "were not part of any organized or planned criminal policy, but rather individual crimes for which direct perpetrators, individuals, are guilty". Glavas also told the newspaper that he "cares that the citizens of Serbia find out the truth about him", since he "cares about the opinion of the people of Serb ethnicity".

Glavaš "would have preferred" Hague trial

Glavaš, who is also a Croatian MP and has in the meantime been stripped of his immunity, immediately fled the country and is now in neighboring Bosnia.

"I wish that the Hague Tribunal had asked for me and that the process was led there. My trial would have been more fair and just, and it would certainly ended with my acquittal," he told Belgrade daily Politika.

Glavaš described Croatia's justice system as "remote-operated by politics, while [PM] Ivo Sanader holds the remote control in all the processes that are of so-called state interest".

He once again protested his innocence, adding that the war crimes that had taken place in the town of Osijek at the start of the 1990s war in Croatia "were not part of any organized or planned criminal policy, but rather individual crimes for which direct perpetrators, individuals, are guilty".

Glavaš also told the newspaper that he "cares that the citizens of Serbia find out the truth about him", since he "cares about the opinion of the people of Serb ethnicity".