Croatia’s president said Thursday that citizens had to admit crimes were committed by fellow Croats in Bosnia, a day after a Bosnian Croat war criminal took his own life at a court in The Hague. The former military commander swigged liquid from a brown bottle, which he told his lawyer was poison, just seconds after UN judges upheld his 20-year sentence. Grabar-Kitarovic said the tribunal had “failed to fulfil its role of bringing justice”, with crimes against Bosnian Croats “not punished in the same way”. Significantly however, the appeal judges upheld the original trial’s finding that the “ultimate purpose” of the criminal enterprise in Bosnia was shared by late Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, seen as the “father” of his country. Tudjman died in 1999, but the UN court said he would have been indicted if he had lived.

Source: Egypt Independent November 30, 2017 12:11 UTC