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B92 [Serbia]: Hague: Gotovina defense team "on strike" (10 December 2009)
The defense lawyers think that the Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz is "behind yesterday's police action the goal of which was to find the so-called artillery logs", and therefore are asking the trial chamber to "take concrete legal measures against him".

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Croatian police yesterday morning searched the apartments of several persons from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as a part of the search for the artillery logs.

They included the apartments of retired general and former Hague indictee Rahim Ademi, Gotovina's associates and member of his defense team Željko Kučić and Marin Ivanović, and former chief of General Petar Stipetić's cabinet, Miroslav Vidović.

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Brammertz's report about Croatia's cooperation with the Hague Tribunal depends on these logs, because some members of the EU do not wish to allow Croatia to start the judiciary and fundamental rights chapter negotiations, unless the logs have been given to the prosecution.



En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:58:51 AM EST
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There is a long history of tricksery with witheld evidence and plausible denial at Hague, from all parties (Kosovo Albanians, Bosnian and Serbian Serbs, Croatians etc); enough to keep domestic public opinion pessimistic about the guilt of 'national heroes', enough to convince some Western observers. Most notoriously the doubts cast on the numbers and circumstances of the death of Srebrenica victims, 'helped' by the relocation of mass graves. (The number of identified climbed to 6,307, with still more to analyse, the last mass grave having been found just a month ago.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 07:16:11 AM EST
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