The chief prosecutor of the Judicial Mechanism in The Hague, Serž Bramerc, warned today, before the United Nations Security Council, that Croatia is not willing to prosecute Croatian perpetrators of war crimes against Serbs and Muslims.
"The general impression is that in Croatia today there is a will to satisfy justice for Croatian victims, but not for victims of other nationalities," emphasized Bramerc, submitting a regular report to the UN Security Council in New York.
The chief prosecutor underlined that "the Government of Croatia made a political decision to block the judicial process" in cases where the victims were non-Croats.
As announced by the prosecutor's office in The Hague, Bramerc stated that Croatia is hindering cooperation with Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the criminal prosecution of perpetrators of war crimes.
Serbia and BiH, which, according to Bramerc, have made progress in mutual cooperation and exchange of evidence, "are facing serious difficulties in their efforts to ensure Croatia's cooperation".
Bramerc specified that Croatia remained silent on the demands of prosecutors from BiH for cooperation in "more than 80 cases", some of which were submitted "seven years ago".
Bramerc accused the Croatian Ministry of Justice of "blocking" those requests.
"There is a simple step that Croatia can take... and that is to send all unfulfilled requests for cooperation, which are currently blocked by the Ministry of Justice, to their competent judicial authorities and encourage them to urgently resolve these requests," Bramerc said.
He assessed that there are still "more than 3.000 suspects" for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, against whom investigation and criminal prosecution must be carried out.
The chief Hague prosecutor called on the countries of the former Yugoslavia to "put aside their political differences and significantly improve cooperation in the search for missing persons".
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