Only Pasalic Opposed Cooperation with The Hague

The Council believes that the work of The Hague Tribunal is arrogant and strange, stressing Pasalic was the only one to oppose cooperation.

“The Hague Tribunal – Joint Criminal Underrtaking – What is That?” is a collection of works presented at the Croatian Writers’ Society. 

The Hague is strange and arrogant 

-- We hope that The Hague’s judges will gather sufficient strength to make fair decisions and so save face and the face of its founders because the work of the Tribunal is strange and arrogant – said the president of the Croatian Cultural Council, Hrvoje Hitrec, stressing that the authors of the collection had placed war events into historical context.

Attending the presentation was also Nedjeljko Mihanovic, a former parliament president, who said that the former Racan’s government and present Sanader’s government violated the Croatian Constitution. He accused England, The Netherlands and Sweden for open war against Croatia’s advancement. According to him, the work of the Croatian Helsinki Committee and its president Zarko Puhovski created a phoney image of Croatia.

-- Why does The Hague prosecution qualify Croatia’s struggle for independence and freedom as a joint criminal endeavour – wondered a Constitutional Court judge, Milan Vukovic, who hold that the indictment against Croatian officers is the result of averseness towards the independent state of Croatia and the victory of the Croatian people over the aggressor.

The beginning of Pasalic’s anguish 

-- Of all the politicians at a secret session, only Ivic Pasalic opposed the Declaration on Cooperation with the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and as of then this man’s anguish begins because both the ruling and opposition parties turned against him – said academician Ivan Aralica, emphasising that former premier Ivica Racan had tried in all ways to impose the Declaration.