"Hague Tribunal verdict is scandalous"

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević says the decision to acquit Croat Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač is scandalous.

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Friday, 16.11.2012.

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BELGRADE Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says the decision to acquit Croat Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac is scandalous. Vukcevic stressed that the verdict showed that a principle of punishment in war crimes cases was seriously jeopardized. "Hague Tribunal verdict is scandalous" “This is one of the greatest war crimes in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, killings, expulsion and endangering several hundreds of thousands of people and nobody has answered for it,” he stressed. According to him, it is unfathomable from a legal point of view that stiff verdicts were delivered in the initial trial and that the defendants were acquitted in the second trial since the facts remained unchanged. Serbian government's National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal President Rasim Ljajic said after the Friday verdict that the Hague Tribunal “has lost all credibility”. “What happened today is just a proof of selective justice that is worse than any injustice,” he told reporters and added that people had been killed and expelled in the Operation Storm and that nobody was held responsible for the crimes. “The decision of the Appeals Chamber takes us three steps back and a perception of the Tribunal in our public will be even worse,” Ljajic pointed out. United Serbia (JS) leader Dragan Markovic has said that the Hague Tribunal’s decision legalized the biggest ethnic cleansing in Europe since WWII. “The Hague Tribunal killed once again all those who were savagely murdered during and after the Operation Storm with the verdict,” he said. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has assessed that the Tribunal’s decision has legalized horrible crimes against the Serbian people in the Operation Storm. “This decision has showed that the Hague Tribunal makes political decisions more often than legal ones. We are disappointed with such attitude of the international institutions toward the Serbian people, neglecting of facts and disrespect of the victims of the Operation Storm, the biggest crime in modern Europe since WWII,” the SNS stressed in the release. Gotovina and Markac were acquitted on almost all counts of the indictment for crimes against Serb civilians on Friday morning. Croats celebrate the acquittal of Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac (Beta) Beta Tanjug

"Hague Tribunal verdict is scandalous"

“This is one of the greatest war crimes in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, killings, expulsion and endangering several hundreds of thousands of people and nobody has answered for it,” he stressed.

According to him, it is unfathomable from a legal point of view that stiff verdicts were delivered in the initial trial and that the defendants were acquitted in the second trial since the facts remained unchanged.

Serbian government's National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal President Rasim Ljajić said after the Friday verdict that the Hague Tribunal “has lost all credibility”.

“What happened today is just a proof of selective justice that is worse than any injustice,” he told reporters and added that people had been killed and expelled in the Operation Storm and that nobody was held responsible for the crimes.

“The decision of the Appeals Chamber takes us three steps back and a perception of the Tribunal in our public will be even worse,” Ljajić pointed out.

United Serbia (JS) leader Dragan Marković has said that the Hague Tribunal’s decision legalized the biggest ethnic cleansing in Europe since WWII.

“The Hague Tribunal killed once again all those who were savagely murdered during and after the Operation Storm with the verdict,” he said.

The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has assessed that the Tribunal’s decision has legalized horrible crimes against the Serbian people in the Operation Storm.

“This decision has showed that the Hague Tribunal makes political decisions more often than legal ones. We are disappointed with such attitude of the international institutions toward the Serbian people, neglecting of facts and disrespect of the victims of the Operation Storm, the biggest crime in modern Europe since WWII,” the SNS stressed in the release.

Gotovina and Markač were acquitted on almost all counts of the indictment for crimes against Serb civilians on Friday morning.

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