Croatia indicts Glavaš for war crimes
Branimir Glavaš and six others were indicted Monday for having killed Serb civilians during 1990s war, Hina reports.
Monday, 16.04.2007.
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Croatia indicts Glavaš for war crimes
The county court in Osijek, a city in eastern Croatia where Glavaš commanded defense forces in the war, indicted him for allegedly giving orders to members of a unit under his command to abduct, torture and murder Serbs in late 1991."The county state prosecution requested detention of all indictees due to the particularly severe circumstances under which the crime had been committed," Hina quoted a statement from the prosecution office as saying.
Glavaš, who has denied any wrongdoing, staged a 40-day hunger strike to protest his detention last year and was released in December after his health seriously worsened.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
Glavaš is the subject of a separate war crimes investigation in the capital Zagreb for other atrocities against Serb civilians, also committed in Osijek in the early 1990s.
He was among the founders of the ruling conservative HDZ party but was expelled last year after clashing with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader over Sanader's pro-European policies.
His new party rules the fertile Slavonia region in the east. He has denounced his trial as a political ploy and Sanader's attempt to take revenge.
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