
Victims buried by threats and indifference
ICTY judgement causes dissatisfaction, denial, and panic in Croatia.
|2017.12.08
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President of the Croatian Parliament, Gordan Jandrokovic, rejected the verdict as “unjust.” The same adjective was used by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, announcing that the government would “consider political and legal mechanisms in order to contest allegations from the verdict.”
The media and political unanimity, which only a handful of non-influential media, journalists, and opposition politicians opposed, created a threatening climate for all those who disagree with rejecting the Hague verdict.
Many questions remain. What happened to the victims? They are rarely mentioned in Croatia, except by weak and infrequent opposition voices, NGOs and some media.

Boris Pavelic
Boris Pavelic has been a journalist for 25 years. He works at the daily Novi List newspaper in Rijeka and has authored three books on Croatian politics and history.
This story was originally written in English.