PRLIĆ HTIO BOSANSKU NEOVISNOST
Croat Leader “Wanted Bosnian Independence” Former Bosnian Croat leader accused of ethnic cleansing claims he supported an independent, integral Bosnia. By Goran Jungvirth in The Hague (TU No 550, 9-May-08) The ex-prime minister of the wartime Bosnian Croat mini-state Herceg Bosna testified in his own defence this week, telling judges that he always favoured an independent Bosnian state. Giving evidence before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Jadranko Prlic sought to distance himself from the actions of the Bosnian Croatmilitary and police. Prlic and five other Bosnian Croats are accused of taking part in a “joint criminal enterprise” aimed at expelling Bosniaks from parts of the country during the Croatian-Muslim conflict in 1993-94. The prosecution argues that the defendants conspired to ethnically cleanse Muslim Bosniaks and other non-Croats from those parts of Bosnia that were claimed as Herceg Bosna in 1991, and that they planned incorpora...