Croatians convicted of war crimes

[pampango]

Source: BBC

Two Croatian military leaders have been convicted of atrocities against Serbs during a 1995 campaign of ethnic cleansing, after a trial at The Hague.

Judges sentenced Ante Gotovina to 24 years and Mladen Markac to 18 years in jail for crimes including murder, persecution and plunder. The men helped to plan an operation to retake Croatia's Krajina region and force out its Serbian population.

The war crimes tribunal cleared another defendant, Ivan Cermak, of all charges.

Gotovina and Markac were convicted of a range of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed as their forces retook the Krajina region, which had been under Serb control since the start of the war in 1991. About 200,000 ethnic Serbs were driven from Croatia in 1995 and at least 150 were killed.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13092438

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[OnlinePoker]

3. I think it's the rule of the board

You have to use the headline as published in the source.

[mojowork_n]

5. May as well say "All Americans..."

...if the purpose is to condemn an entire ethnic group for the actions of some individuals. (Although in this case, it would appear that the individuals involved may have been part of a highly organized, aided-and-abetted from the top, government-sanctioned effort.)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/08/18/29683.htm

A private U.S. defense contractor "trained and equipped the Croatian military for Operation Storm and designed the Operation Storm battle plan," which killed or displaced more than 200,000 Serbs in 1995, in the largest European land offensive since World War II, the Genocide Victims of Krajina say in Chicago Federal Court. They demand billions of dollars in damages from MPRI, founded by U.S. military officers who were "downsized" at the end of the Cold War, and L-3 Communications, which bought MPRI for $40 million in 2000.
"This is a class action brought by ethnic Serbs who resided in the Krajina region of Croatia up to August 1995 and who then became victims of the Croatian military assault known as Operation Storm - an aggressive, systematic military attack and bombardment on a demilitarized civilian population that had been placed under the protection of the United Nations," the 40-page complaint begins.
"Operation Storm was designed to kill or forcibly expel the ethnic Serbian residents of the Krajina region from Croatian territory, just because they were a minority religio-ethnic group. Defendant MPRI, a private military contractor subsequently acquired by Defendant L-3 Communications Inc., trained and equipped the Croatian military for Operation Storm and designed the Operation Storm battle plan. Operation Storm became the largest land offensive in Europe since World War II and resulted in the murder and inhumane treatment of thousands of ethnic Serbs, the forced displacement of approximately 200,000 ethnic Serbs from their ancestral homes in Croatian territory, and the pillaging and destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Serbian-owned property. The victims of Operation Storm and their heirs and next of kin herein claim that Defendants were complicit in genocide."

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[mickscott]

6. Croatians convicted of war crimes

155 charged only 12 released so its NOT ONLY 2 !
This conviction does not excuse the Serbs of their own Atrocities and many of them are in jail right along side the Croat`s who both Deserve to be there. With many others who are still on the run. MANY with the aide of the Serbian and Croatian Government`s like Ratko Mladic who it is widely believed to be hiding in Serbia with the aide of the Serbian Government.The Croatian Government gave all the support it could to Ante Gotovina & Mladen Markac hailed them as National Hero's with sports stars even selling personal property to help with defence funds. SO this is a verdict on ALL OF CROATIA and ALL ITS PEOPLE .. NOT just 2 men. This goes a long way to expose what a Myth and disgrace it is when Croatia tries to lie to the world and say THEY WERE ONLY DEFENDING THEM SELVES ? Like when they bombed the OLDEST SINGLE SPAN BRIDGE IN THE WORLD in MOSTAR that belonged to the world NOT TO CROATIA OR SERBIA OR BOSNIA !!!
Like Germany is NEVER ALLOWED to forget the Alleged crimes of Mr Hitler & WW2 the Croatian`s and Serbs should never be allowed to forget their CRUEL CIVILIAN ETHNIC CLEANSING CRIMES EITHER !!!

Cheers - Mick.

[BOG PERSON]

8. wow

there's an unusually high percentage of deleted replies in this thread. is this a touchy subject?