Former U.S. ambassador on Operation Storm

Peter Galbraith told HRT that Croatian forces were responsible for the 1995 Operation Storm crimes.

Izvor: Beta

Monday, 21.05.2007.

13:40

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Former U.S. ambassador on Operation Storm

However, he refused to qualify the crimes as a joint criminal enterprise aimed at exiling the entire Serb population of that country, as reads the Hague indictment against the three Storm generals, Ante Gotovina, Mladen Markač and Ivan Čermak.

Galbraith said instead the answer to that question should be left to The Hague to answer, “based on evidence”.

“No one can deny that crimes happened after Operation Storm, including such steps that aimed at preventing the return of Serbs,” he said.

“In this case, the Croatian forces were the ones that pillaged, burned and killed. I was here during Operation Storm, it was clear that the Croatian Army had full control and that those who went into that did so with the full consent from the Croatian military and police,” Galbraith said, adding that some members of the U.S. embassy staff in Croatia also saw Croatian soldiers burn houses in Krajina in the summer of 1995.

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