1. Clinton chiamato in correita' per la pulizia etnica delle Krajne
2. 400mila serbi "spariti" dal censimento

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http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020708-3102700.htm

Balkans tribunal turns to Clinton
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 8, 2002

-Besides Mr. Clinton, others named in the complaint
are former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake,
former Deputy National Security Adviser Samuel Berger,
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former U.S.
Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith.
-Secretly supported by the Clinton administration,
Croatian forces launched a massive three-day military
offensive - known as "Operation Storm" - on Aug. 4,
1995....
-He is also accused by the prosecutor's office at The
Hague of overseeing the ethnic cleansing of 150,000
Serbs in Croatia who fled the military assault.


ZAGREB, Croatia - The Balkans war crimes tribunal
is examining whether charges are warranted against
former President Clinton and his aides for supporting
a 1995 military offensive by Croatia that recaptured
territory then held by rebel Serbian forces.
The Croatian World Congress sent a letter last
week demanding that Carla Del Ponte, the chief
prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), open a criminal
investigation into Mr. Clinton and other top officials
of his administration for "aiding and abetting
indicted Croatian Gen. Ante Gotovina in a 1995
Croatian military operation known as 'Operation
Storm.'"
When asked if the prosecutor's office plans to
indict Mr. Clinton and U.S. officials, Florence
Hartmann, spokeswoman for Mrs. Del Ponte, said: "We
are working on the basis of an ongoing investigation."
Besides Mr. Clinton, others named in the
complaint are former National Security Adviser Anthony
Lake, former Deputy National Security Adviser Samuel
Berger, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former U.S.
Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith.
Fears that American officials and soldiers will
be prosecuted for participating in U.N.-backed
peacekeeping efforts lie behind the Bush
administration's threat to scuttle the present U.N.
peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
The threat is part of a dispute involving a
separate but similar U.N. tribunal, the International
Criminal Court, which was modeled after the ICTY and
opened its doors last week. Both courts are based in
The Hague.
The Balkans court angered U.S. officials two
years ago when it acknowledged it was looking into a
similar complaint against NATO commanders for their
role in the 1999 U.S.-led bombing campaign in
Yugoslavia.
Court officials said at the time they felt
obliged to look into all complaints placed before
them, but they dropped the matter after a preliminary
investigation.
Gen. Gotovina was indicted by the ICTY in June
2001 on charges that he exercised "command
responsibility" over a military campaign in which 150
Serbian civilians were killed.
Secretly supported by the Clinton administration,
Croatian forces launched a massive three-day military
offensive - known as "Operation Storm" - on Aug. 4,
1995, in which Croatia recovered territories occupied
by rebel Serbs following Zagreb's drive for
independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
The Croatian World Congress, a nongovernmental
organization (NGO) that advises the United Nations,
said it believes neither Gen. Gotovina nor Clinton
administration officials are guilty of war crimes.
However, it said that if Mrs. Del Ponte insists
on prosecuting Gen. Gotovina, then American officials
should be prosecuted in the interests of "evenhanded
justice" because they played a pivotal role in aiding
the general's campaign in Operation Storm.
The Croatian World Congress said the U.S.
administration gave the green light for the operation
and provided diplomatic and political support for it.
But the NGO stressed that "the most just outcome
would be to withdraw the indictment against Gen.
Gotovina."
The possibility that the Gotovina case will lead
to U.S. officials being indicted by the ICTY worries
some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Henry J. Hyde, Illinois Republican and
chairman of the House Committee on International
Relations, said in a May 29 letter to Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell that at committee hearings on
the ICTY, "Testimony was presented at our hearing
questioning the factual basis for this indictment.
"It was brought to our attention that the ICTY
may investigate U.S. officials for potential command
responsibility in connection with Operation Storm."
Mr. Hyde said the ongoing investigation in the
Gotovina case poses "risks" that U.S. officials would
be prosecuted by the "U.N. tribunal for formulating or
carrying out U.S. government policy."
Gen. Gotovina, 48, was the military commander of
Sector South of the operation that was responsible for
the capture of the city Knin.
He is also accused by the prosecutor's office at
The Hague of overseeing the ethnic cleansing of
150,000 Serbs in Croatia who fled the military
assault. He is currently in hiding, his whereabouts
unknown.
The United States provided military and technical
assistance to Operation Storm in order to deliver a
defeat to then-Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's
goal of forging an ethnically pure "Greater Serbia."

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http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2002-daily/25-06-2002/world/w4.htm

Jang (Pakistan)
June 25, 2002

Serbs still victims of discrimination

-"Croatian Serbs were chased out of their jobs,
particularly in the public sector. They were chased
out of their apartments, particularly in the big
cities and were stigmatised in a country of war
criminals."
-[T]here are some 300,000 Serbs living as refugees in
other countries including 250,000 in Serbia and
Montenegro. "For the most part, the young hide their
identity," he said citing as an example figures from
Split, Croatia's second-largest city, which has more
than 450,000 residents but where only nine people
declared themselves to be Serbian Orthodox.
-According to United Nations figures, only 95,000 out
of 280,000 Serbs who fled during the war have returned
so far.


ZAGREB: Seven years after the end of the
Serbian-Croatian war, and two years on after the death
of nationalist president Franjo Tudjman, Croatian
Serbs say they are still treated as second-class
citizens. "In the course of the last 12 years,
Croatia's policy has been a policy of discrimination,"
said Milorad Pupovac, president of the Serb National
Council which groups Croatia's Serb associations.

"Croatian Serbs were chased out of their jobs,
particularly in the public sector. They were chased
out of their apartments, particularly in the big
cities and were stigmatised in a country of war
criminals," he told AFP. Pupovac and other Croatian
Serb leaders have also demanded a revision of the
Balkan country's first census since independence,
asserting that it seriously exaggerated the post-war
decline in the country's ethnic Serb population.

Pupovac said more Serbs than listed were living in
Croatia, claiming that results had been flawed by
faulty methodology and failure to include returning
refugees. The new census showed that ethnic Serbs --
the country's second largest group -- had dropped to
4.54 percent of the population in 2001, down from
12.16 percent in the last survey in 1991 when Croatia
was still part of the former Yugoslavia.

The census said more than 200,000 Serbs were living in
the country but Pupovac said the actual figure is
somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000, making it
closer to six percent of the population. In addition,
there are some 300,000 Serbs living as refugees in
other countries including 250,000 in Serbia and
Montenegro. "For the most part, the young hide their
identity," he said citing as an example figures from
Split, Croatia's second-largest city, which has more
than 450,000 residents but where only nine people
declared themselves to be Serbian Orthodox.

Pupovac said the biggest problem for Croatia now is
the rehousing of those Serb refugees returning. "We
have tried very hard for the restitution of our
properties since 1997 but with very little success,"
Pupovac said. "The current occupants, who are
Croatians, have more rights than the owners and in
practice, our right of ownership is not recognised."

He said another contentious issue is the rebuilding of
Serb homes destroyed in Croatia by either military or
para-military groups and the battle for compensation
from the Croatian government. In May, the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) urged
Croatia to step up efforts to encourage the return of
ethnic Serb refugees, asking it create a more
favourable climate for their return. According to
United Nations figures, only 95,000 out of 280,000
Serbs who fled during the war have returned so far.
Pupovac said while the current government is not
anti-Serb, it has not done enough to ensure its
Serbian citizens are treated equally or offer them
protection as a minority group.