No court trial would be better for Zagreb

The arguments that Serbia included in a counter lawsuit against Croatia before the International Court of Justice concern missing people, killed people, refugees, expelled people but also all military actions and concentration camps.

One of the authors of the counter law suit Savo Strbac, Chief of the ‘Veritas’ Documentation-Information Center says for ‘Blic’ that ‘Serbia has practically referred to everything that has happened’ including the UN Convention that sanctions planning and attempt of genocide. A special section of the counter law suit which is aimed to prove that Croatia has committed genocide is a detailed reference to Serbian-Croatian relations during the WWII.
Serbia Government has decided on December 31, 2009 to file a counter law suit for genocide against Croatia.
‘Serbia has no intention of conflicting with Croatia in court. We want to build good neighboring relations and cooperate on our path to the EU. My opinion is that it would be much better for Croatia that this court process is not held at all’, Serbia Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said.
Both Strbac and the authorities in Belgrade say that the intention is not to affect the relations with Croatia and that that Croatia is now on the move.
Strbac also says that the arguments used in our counter law suit are data from the census carried out in Croatia.
‘The pure mathematics show that over 400,000 Serbs have simply disappeared from the territory of Croatia. Over 200,000 people were expelled from their homes only during ‘Oluja’ military operation. Everything was done to prevent people ever return to their homes’, Strbac says.
The counter law suit also contains examples of genocide such as Pakracka poljana, Marino Selo, Sisak, Karlovac, Osijek, Zadar, pavilion 22 in Zagreb, concentration camps Lora, Kerestinac, Red and White Barracks and all aggressions on a UN protected area in Krajina such as Miljevacki Plateau, Maslenica, Medacki dzep, ‘Bljesak’ and ‘Oluja’.