Croatia goes after cleared Vukovar officer

Ivo Sanader said that an international warrant for the arrest of Miroslav Radić will be issued.

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Thursday, 04.10.2007.

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Ivo Sanader said that an international warrant for the arrest of Miroslav Radic will be issued. Answering questions from officials of the Croatian Assembly yesterday, the Croatian prime minister reminded that his country's state prosecutor’s office indicted the Vukovar Three and other top officials of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) back in 1992. Croatia goes after cleared Vukovar officer Assembly officials criticized the government’s politics regarding cooperation with the Hague Tribunal and several right-wing oppositional parties called for a vote to suspend cooperation altogether, though there was not enough support for the motion. Sanader explained the process of issuing an international warrant for Radic, who was cleared of all charges by the Hague Tribunal regarding his involvement in the killing of hundreds of people in the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991. Sanader said that he personally wanted to know why there was never a court process in Croatia against the Vukovar Three and chief officials of the JNA, adding that he is not satisfied with the answer that it is not usual practice for defendants to be tried in absentia.

Croatia goes after cleared Vukovar officer

Assembly officials criticized the government’s politics regarding cooperation with the Hague Tribunal and several right-wing oppositional parties called for a vote to suspend cooperation altogether, though there was not enough support for the motion.

Sanader explained the process of issuing an international warrant for Radić, who was cleared of all charges by the Hague Tribunal regarding his involvement in the killing of hundreds of people in the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.

Sanader said that he personally wanted to know why there was never a court process in Croatia against the Vukovar Three and chief officials of the JNA, adding that he is not satisfied with the answer that it is not usual practice for defendants to be tried in absentia.

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