Defence seeks acquittal for General Gotovina News -   Wednesday, 28.7.2010 10:21:22	|
The prosecution has failed to prove any count of the indictment that charges Croatian general Ante Gotovina with complicity in a criminal enterprise aimed at permanent removal of the Serb population from the areas regained by the Croatian army in a military offensive known as Operation Storm in the summer of 1995  read more...

Gotovina Defence Final Trial Brief Press Realeses -   Tuesday, 27.7.2010 17:51:23	|
Before closing arguments due by the end of august, Gotovina defence submitted final trial brief to the trial chamber.  read more...

GOTOVINA DEFENSE FILED CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST UN OBSERVERS FOR CONCEALING ARTILLERY LOGS News -   Monday, 26.4.2010 7:53:03	|
ANTE GOTOVINA's attorney Luka Mišetić submitted a criminal report today against three UN military observers for concealment or destruction of the so-called "artillery logs". The report was submitted to the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Zagreb, said Mišetić.  read more...

ICTY issues subpoena to Croatia to stop examining confiscated documents News -   Saturday, 12.12.2009 16:44:36	|
The trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the case of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac on Friday granted a motion by Gotovina's defence team and issued a binding order to the Republic of Croatia to stop examining documents and computers confiscated in a recent police raid, launched against members of Gotovina's defence team, Hina learned from several sources.  read more...

Witness says it can't be concluded that Knin was shelled indiscriminately News -   Tuesday, 8.9.2009 15:52:38	|
Retired US Army officer Geoffrey Corn, who is a defence witness for Croatian General Ante Gotovina, on Tuesday told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague that he could not agree with one of the main arguments of the prosecution that the southern Croatian town of Knin was targeted randomly during Operation Storm, when Croatian forces retook areas from Serb rebels in early August 1995.  read more...

Prosecution expert misinterprets military doctrine, US witness tells ICTY trial News -   Monday, 7.9.2009 15:51:47	|
Retired US Army officer Geoffrey Corn began his testimony as a defence witness in the trial of Croatian Army General Ante Gotovina at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Monday. A civilian legal adviser in the US military and a special adviser on war matters, Corn had contacted Gotovina's defence team after discovering certain mistakes in a report presented by a prosecution witness, Harry Konings of the Netherlands, during his testimony earlier this year.   read more...

U.S. general says Gotovina was very successful operational commander News -   Monday, 31.8.2009 15:50:01	|
Croatian army general Ante Gotovina performed his task as operational commander in an excellent and enviably successful way, retired US army general Anthony Ray Jones said at a trial of three Croatian army generals at the Hague war crimes tribunal on Monday.  read more...

Bajic says HV tolerated plunder to certain extent News -   Tuesday, 25.8.2009 15:48:03	|
Croatia's State Attorney Mladen Bajic on Tuesday agreed with a prosecutor of the Hague tribunal that the Croatian Army (HV) "tolerated plunder to a certain extent" in the aftermath of the 1995 Operation Storm, but that all reports of crimes had been processed.  read more...

Bajic says perpetrators of crimes in aftermath of Operation Storm weren't HV members News -   Monday, 24.8.2009 15:49:02	|
Croatia's State Attorney Mladen Bajic said at the Hague tribunal on Monday that most perpetrators of crimes committed after the 1995 Croatian army and police operation "Storm" were not members of the Croatian Army (HV), but demobilised soldiers who had kept their uniforms so that they could move more easily and commit crimes in areas where civilian movement was restricted.  read more...

Follow the Gotovina Trial on Twitter! News -   Sunday, 26.7.2009 16:29:16	|
The AnteGotovina.com team is adding a Twitter page to its coverage of the trial of Ante Gotovina. Beginning today, you can follow all of the latest news about Ante Gotovina on Twitter.   read more...

ICTY dismisses request to suspend proceedings against Ivanovic and Sare in Croatia News -   Friday, 24.7.2009 15:45:54	|
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has dismissed a request by the defence team for General Ante Gotovina to have ICTY trial chamber order Croatia to suspend proceedings against Marin Ivanovic, an attorney from the Gotovina defence team, and a witness for the defence, Jurica Sare, saying that the defence had not backed its request with "convincing reasons".  read more...

British general testifies in Gotovina trial News -   Thursday, 23.7.2009 15:46:54	|
The chaos that followed the 1995 Croatian army operation codenamed Storm is typical of such operations because of a shortage of personnel and resources to restore order in a post-war situation, British General Timothy Cross said at the trial of three Croatian generals before the Hague war crimes tribunal on Thursday.  read more...

Witness says Gotovina didn't interfere in work of military courts News -   Tuesday, 21.7.2009 15:44:57	|
Croatian military commanders in the 1995 Operation Storm, including General Ante Gotovina, did not interfere in the work of military courts which prosecuted crimes committed by Croatian troops and Serb prisoners of war, nor could they have done it under regulations that were in force at the time, former military judge Zoran Matulovic said at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday.  read more...

Witness says emigration to be expected after war News -   Friday, 17.7.2009 15:43:47	|
Emigration after the end of a war is a common occurrence and it occurred in eastern Croatia's Danube river region after the liberation of occupied areas, when a little under 25 per cent of local Serbs left Croatia, a defence witness told the Hague war crimes tribunal on Wednesday in a trial against three Croatian army generals.   read more...

Former assistant government minister begins testimony in Gotovina trial News -   Tuesday, 14.7.2009 15:42:54	|
In the years after regaining control of its Serb-occupied territory, Croatia insisted on the return of all refugees and displaced persons to their prewar homes as a basic principle to resolve the refugee crisis and begin the normalisation process, but the international community was primarily focused on the return of Serbs to Croatia  read more...

ICTY: Retired US colonel testifies at trial of three Croatian Army generals News -   Thursday, 9.7.2009 16:44:44	|
The Croatian Army lacked quality noncommissioned officers who represent "the spine of the army", defence witness Richard Herrick said at the trial of three Croatian Army Generals - Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac - before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Thursday.  read more...

Operation "Return" aimed at bringing life back to normal, says witness News -   Tuesday, 7.7.2009 16:45:41	|
The operation aimed at improving sanitary conditions on the ground after the August 1995 Operation Storm when the Croatian forces retook central and southern Croatian areas from rebel Serbs was carried out to return living conditions to normal and not to cover up crimes, a member of the command staff of that operation code-named "Povratak" (Return) told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Tuesday.  read more...

ICTY prosecutor holds crimes committed in Storm ascribed to civilians News -   Friday, 3.7.2009 16:48:40	|
At the trial of three Croatian generals the prosecution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Friday claimed that some crimes committed by Croatian soldiers had later been ascribed to civilians in a bid to protect soldiers against criminal proceedings.  read more...

Mrksic Testified to Support General Gotovina News -   Saturday, 20.6.2009 13:24:39	|
The first artillery strike against Knin when the target was the army of the so called Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK), the north army barracks and so called presidential palace was very precise, said the former JNA (Yugoslav People’s Army) general Mile Mrksic  read more...

Gotovina's defence still want documents from EU News -   Friday, 24.4.2009 16:32:52	|
The defence team of Croatian army general Ante Gotovina has asked the Hague war crimes tribunal's trial chamber in the case to order the European Union to hand over the documents the defence wants, and whose existence the EU does not dispute, as well as to order an investigation into documents which the defence claims exist, although the EU doubts it.  read more...