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Croatia minister goes in hunt row
BBC News ^ | Saturday, 29 December 2007

Posted on 12/30/2007 8:21:18 AM PST by F-117A

Croatian interior minister Ivica Kirin has resigned after being pictured on a boar hunt with a war crimes suspect.

"I... offer my apology to all those that might have been harmed," Mr Kirin said in a resignation letter.

Croatian newspapers published pictures of him out hunting before Christmas with former police chief Mladen Markac, who is accused of massacring Serbs.

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Mr Markac, 52, is accused with several other former security figures with involvement in a plan to drive ethnic Serbs from the Krajina region in 1995, when he was commander of police special forces.

More than 150 Serb civilians were killed in the operation, which came towards the end of Croatia's war of independence during the wars that accompanied the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: balkans; croatia; warcrimes

1 posted on 12/30/2007 8:21:19 AM PST by F-117A
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To: joan; Bokababe; DTA; kronos77; FormerLib

Ping!


2 posted on 12/30/2007 8:22:14 AM PST by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: F-117A; Bokababe; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

I wonder if this will even discomfort the usual suspects who want to portray only Serbs as criminals.


3 posted on 12/30/2007 9:12:17 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

Did the Ustashas have souls?


4 posted on 12/30/2007 9:34:01 AM PST by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: F-117A
Their actions suggest that they might not have but I do hope that they did so they could enjoy the eternal torment that they’ve earned.
5 posted on 12/30/2007 3:53:01 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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