Zadar, 13 December: Several minor incidents occurred in the Zadar area of southern Croatia on Monday evening which the police said were connected with anger over the arrest of Gen Ante Gotovina.
The Association of Disabled Homeland War Veterans (HVIDRA) said today it fully supported general Ante Gotovina, adding that it was convinced he was innocent. HVIDRA said it would organize peaceful ...protests at noon on Sunday 11 December across Croatia to support the general. The association requested the Croatian authorities to provide legal aid and other forms of assistance to general Gotovina and other Croatian ICTY indictees.
The Association of Families of Killed and Missing Soldiers of the Herceg-Bosnia Croat Defence Council HVO, the Croat Disabled Homeland War Veterans of the Herceg-Bosnia HVO and the Volunteers and ...Veterans of the Homeland War called on their members to rally in town squares together with other members of their municipal and county associations on Sunday...
Gospic/Zagreb, 9 December: Some 50 homeland war veterans gathered in downtown Gospic on Thursday 8 December evening to support General Ante Gotovina whom the Spanish police arrested in the night ...between Wednesday and Thursday in the Canaries.
Banja Luka, 8 December: Bosnian Serb Republic (RS) Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic said today that the news about the arrest of Croatian Gen Ante Gotovina sends the signal that a more effective ...approach is needed in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia-Montenegro...
The news of Ante Gotovina's arrest was broken by Hague tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte during her visit to Belgrade on Thursday. Gotovina's American lawyer Luka Misetic, who is likely to ...take over his client's defence before the Hague tribunal, was unavailable for comment. Passage omitted - background
Pakostane, 8 December: Milivoj Kurtov, mayor of the Pakostane municipality on the Dalmatian coast, near port of Zadar, said today that he and the town residents had been shocked when they received ...the information about General Ante Gotovina's arrest. Gotovina is an honorary resident of Pakostane, his birthplace.
UHDDR president Ante Martinac confirmed that the poster had been put up by UHDDR members. "If the poster is removed, we will put it up elsewhere," he said.
Zagreb, 1 September: The president of the Croatian Committee for Human Rights in Karlovac, Jelka Glumicic, who has been nominated this year for a Nobel Peace Prize award, has assessed that Operation ...Storm was Croatia's greatest disgrace and that it had been carried out in a typical fascist manner.
The Slovene POP TV said on Friday evening that fugitive Croatian Army General Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on war crimes ...charges, had been arrested in Italy. General Gotovina was arrested by Italian special police forces near the southern town of Castello di Cisterna on 24 May, POP TV said in its prime-time news programme, citing an anonymous source.
