THE HAGUE – Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz has said that a revision of the verdict to Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac is theoretically possible, but that it needs new evidence.
As I said after the acquittal of Gotovina and Markac, a revision is theoretically possible, and we are considering it as we do in all cases, Brammertz told Tanjug.
However, this requires evidence which have never before been presented to the court, he said.
This means that there is a theoretical possibility, but little likelihood as we have no new evidence, the chief prosecutor said.
Director of Veritas Documentation and Information Center Savo Strbac said in an earlier statement for Tanjug that it was still possible to legally change the shameful acquittal of the Croatian generals.
Strbac explained that if within one year of the sentence prosecutors submitted any new evidence, there could be retrials.
According to Strbac, the evidence could be the artillery logs that “Croatia is hiding.”
Gotovina and Markac were first sentenced to 24 and 18 years in prison, respectively, for participation in a joint criminal enterprise, whose goal was ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Serb Krajina, and crimes during and after the Croatian military and police Operation Storm in 1995.
On November 16, 2012, the ICTY Appellate Chamber acquitted the Croatian generals on all points of the indictment.
Operation Storm left almost 2,000 Serbs killed and more than 220,000 Serbs expelled, and so far no one has been sentenced for these crimes.
During the 1991-95 civil war in Croatia, a total of 404,000 Serbs were expelled, 404,000 of whom were from the territories of cities that were not affected by war.
Photo Tanjug, D. Peternek
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