With the trial now under way, Croatiafocus is providing links to news items regarding the case. Come back every so often for updates, and take a look at our archive on the case here. The trial can be viewed live on the ICTY website here.
Sense, 02.05.08: BEFORE AND AFTER OPERATION STORM
CBC News, 24.04.08: CANADIAN ARMY CHIEF GRILLED AT WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
Javno.com, 24.04.08: GENERAL LESLIE LIED IN COURT 'NO SERBS IN KNIN'
CTV.CA, 23.04.08: (CANADIAN GENERAL'S) CREDIBILITY QUESTIONED (video)
CTV.CA, 23.04.08: CANADIAN GENERAL TESTIFIES AT HAGUE TRIBUNAL
Javno.com, 17.04.08: AMERICAN OFFICERS TO TESTIFY IN GOTOVINA'S DEFENCE
Sense, 10.04.08: DEFENSE: CERMAK DID NOT ISSUE ORDERS – HE COORDINATED THINGS
Sense, 08.04.08: ONE PLUME OF SMOKE FROM SEVEN DIFFERENT ANGLES
Voice of Croatia news, 08.04.08: HAGUE WITNESS CONFIRMS ARTILLERY TARGETS IN KNIN WERE LEGTIMIATE (audio)
Sense, 07.07.08: BOTH PARTIES SHOW VIDEO FOOTAGE AT OPERATION STORM TRIAL
IWPR, 14.03.08: LAWYERS CLAIM GOTOVINA HELPED END WARS
HRT, 14.03.08: ROUND UP OF FIRST WITNESS TESTIMONY (audio)
Previously featured news items can be found here.
I was considerably shocked by your press release on Croatia dated 11.04.07 - 'Croatia: A window of opportunity'.
It claims that "massive and serious human rights violations were perpetrated by both sides". This is not true. Massive and serious human right violations were committed by one side only: the Serbian side. Your press release strongly implies that both sides were equal in carrying out war crimes. Read more
Lijepa Nasa Domovina Hrvatska - 07.10.03: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN GALLAGHER on a Chicago based radio website (covering General Gotovina, Croatia / NATO / EU relations, Croats' status in BiH, Paddy Ashdown and Croats in London) can be found here (mp3 format, 31.2 MB)
An earlier interview with Brian can be found at VisitCroatia.co.uk
November 2004 - Croatiafocus' Brian Gallagher is interviewed by Glas Slavonije in Croatia on Gotovina, British policy and the Milosevic trial.
October 2004 - The run-up to the October local elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina has seen much discussion about the position of Croats in BiH, with a controversial interview with Cardinal Puljic in Vecernji List's BiH edition and Doris Pack MEP highlighting the poor state of Croat refugee returns.
Croatiafocus has been far ahead of the curve. We featured an interview with Cardinal Puljic in June and an article on Croat refugee returns. Indeed, the latter article was referred to in the 30 September issue of Slobodna Dalmacija's BiH edition. The two articles are as relevant today as they were in June.
August 2004 - The UK Guardian published a story reporting MI6 activities revealed in the British press. Croatiafocus's Brian Gallagher mentioned this in a letter to the UK Liberal Democrat News three weeks previously.
April 2004 - A letter published by Croatiafocus's Brian Gallagher was reported on in the BiH edition of Slobodna Dalmacija
Sense, 07.05.08: IZETBEGOVIC OFFERED TUDJMAN WESTERN HERZEGOVINA
BBC News, 10.04.08: SERBIAN FACES WAR CRIMES CHARGE
Croats in London, March 2008: INTERVIEW WITH JASNA PARO, HRT'S LONDON CORRESPONDENT
International Herald Tribune, 13.03.081: EU SAYS CROATIA ON COURSE TO JOIN THE BLOC IN 2010
Daily Mail, 27.02.08: 'I PLOTTED TO ASSASSINATE BALKAN WARLORD,' M16 AGENT TELLS DIANA INQUEST
Israelenews, 27.02.08: `HEROIC` SERBS STORM U.S. EMBASSY IN BELGRADE by Stephen Schwartz
B92.com, 06.01.08: CARLA DEPARTS...FINALLY by William Montgomery
BBC News, 23.01.08: CROATIA PLAY MARKS 40-YEAR RUN (video)
Radio Netherlands. 22.01.08: PADDY ASHDOWN: PATRON SAINT OF LOST CAUSES
Milosevic's Prosecutor: ICTY is "clearly a political court"
IWPR, 11.01.08: NICE ASSESSES ICTY PROSECUTION RECORD
BBC news, 29.08.07: SERBIA TO RETURN CROATIAN HORSES
Brussels Journal, 02.08.07: WHEN TOLERANCE BECOMES CRIMINAL by George Handlery
Sense News Agency, 30.05.07:
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Hundreds of previously featured news items can be found here
THE GOTOVINA CASE BACKGROUND
The following article gives a good account of the concerns surrouding the case:
The American Specator, March 2006: THE RAILROADING OF A FORMER U.S. ALLY. AMERICA, THE HAGUE, AND ANTE GOTOVINA by Robin Harris
Balkan Insight, 20.01.06: COMMENT: OPERATION STORM DESTROYED "GREATER SERBIA" by Brian Gallagher
