"Genocide committed against Serbs, not Croats"
Head of Serbia's legal team Saša Obradović says "genocide was committed against Serbs in Croatia rather than the other way round, as the Croatian side claims."
Monday, 03.03.2014.
17:02
"Genocide committed against Serbs, not Croats"
“If genocide happened, then it was committed against Serbs during Operation Storm, and these are our main arguments that we will present in the dispute,” Obradović told reporters after the end of the first day of presenting the oral arguments in The Hague.He said that Serbia did not want this dispute in spite of a great number of Serb victims in Croatia during the war.
“However, the dispute happened and we are now in a phase which can be labeled as a historic irony - it is a common knowledge that Serbs were the victims of genocide in Croatia in Jasenovac, Jadovno and Jastrebarsko (WW2 extermination camps) in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which at the time comprised Bosnia-Herzegovina and Srem,” Obradović said.
He noted that nonetheless during the NATO air campaign against Serbia, former Croatian president Franjo Tuđman filed a lawsuit reading that Serbs committed genocide in the nineties during the armed conflict in Croatia.
“The lawsuit was filed by the Croatian president, who was the greatest advocate of separatism that destroyed the former Yugoslavia, and who said that Serbs should be banished from Croatia, which will be documented before this court,” he said.
“And Serbs did disappear. Today, there is only one third of the number in 1991, and four times less than in 1931, but we have not heard anything about that today,” Obradović said commenting on the argument by the Croatian legal team.
Obradović underlined that the Serbian team is aware of the historic responsibility in this case, adding that Serbia has solid evidence and strong arguments in relation to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
He said that the Serbian team will not tackle political issues, but it will remember the victims in its argument scheduled for the next week.
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