RS president Milorad Dodik strongly criticized the ICTY’s acquittal of two Croat generals, Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač, who had previously been convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to ethnically cleanse Serb residents from the Krajina region during the 1990s. Mr. Dodik accuses the tribunal of making their ruling based on political pressure from the EU; Croatia is set to join the European Union in 2013.
According to B92, Mr. Dodik called the acquittal “shameful and practically unbelievable.”
“It is unbelievable that after the initial verdict for the Croat generals, the court now delivered the not guilty verdict,” Dodik said. “A reduced sentence could have been expected maybe, but not this.”
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