"Some western powers wanted Gotovina acquitted"
A former spokeswoman for Carla Del Ponte says western powers didn't want to see ex-Croat generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač receive long jail terms.
Monday, 18.04.2011.
12:56
A former spokeswoman for Carla Del Ponte says western powers didn't want to see ex-Croat generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac receive long jail terms. "Some major powers wanted Gotovina to be set free," Florence Hartmann told Slovenia's POP TV. "Some western powers wanted Gotovina acquitted" "There are many who believe that countries which take part in wars in their own territory should not be held accountable for war crimes. Croatia had the right to defend its independence and integrity, but a criminal enterprise, whose aim was the ethnic cleansing of Serbs, did exist," she pointed out. The former spokeswoman for Del Ponte, who served as the tribunal's chief prosecutor, added that the trial chamber did not use the co-called Brioni records as the only proof of the joint criminal enterprise, but that the Tribunal has other evidence, namely the laws passed after 1995, which prevented the exiled Serbs from returning to their homes. "This speaks to the existence of the intention to ethnically cleanse the liberated ground," Hartmann was quoted as saying. Gotovina and Markac were on Friday in The Hague found guilty of involvement in a joint criminal enterprise whose aim - during and after Operation Storm in August 1995 - was to forcefully and permanently remove the Serb population from Croatia. Florence Hartmann (FoNet, file)
"Some western powers wanted Gotovina acquitted"
"There are many who believe that countries which take part in wars in their own territory should not be held accountable for war crimes. Croatia had the right to defend its independence and integrity, but a criminal enterprise, whose aim was the ethnic cleansing of Serbs, did exist," she pointed out.The former spokeswoman for Del Ponte, who served as the tribunal's chief prosecutor, added that the trial chamber did not use the co-called Brioni records as the only proof of the joint criminal enterprise, but that the Tribunal has other evidence, namely the laws passed after 1995, which prevented the exiled Serbs from returning to their homes.
"This speaks to the existence of the intention to ethnically cleanse the liberated ground," Hartmann was quoted as saying.
Gotovina and Markač were on Friday in The Hague found guilty of involvement in a joint criminal enterprise whose aim - during and after Operation Storm in August 1995 - was to forcefully and permanently remove the Serb population from Croatia.
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