Serbian justice minister blasts Zagreb over pilots’ indictment

She told the opening of a regional conference of public prosecutors in Belgrade that statements by Croatian officials, rejecting the indictment by the Serbian judiciary for the bombing of a Serb refugee column in 1995 “run counter to all norms of international humanitarian law”.

The Serbian judiciary indicted four Croatian pilots for the bombing at the end of the war in Croatia but officials in Zagreb said they would not be extradited to Serbia. “Serbian bodies are acting in line with their powers defined by law. I am certain that the indictment is based on firm evidence,” she said, adding that “it’s impermissible not to process cases when the victims are Serbs”.

The minister recalled that no one from the Croatian State Attorney’s Office was present at the conference.

She said that the Serbian authorities believe that every war crimes has to punished adequately which means that the countries of the region have to do the same.