In Serb-Croat politics, we still have elements that led to the establishment of the Tribunal; will the new leaders of these policies go to jail?

Written for NAP: Murat Tahirović, President of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide

After Zoran Krešić, a journalist from Večernji list from Mostar, presented a series of observations about the so-called HZ HB, which was declared by the Hague Tribunal's verdicts as a means of a joint criminal enterprise, it is clear that de facto and de iure the so-called HZ HB lives on through the Croatian National Assembly (HNS).

Zoran Krešić has largely simplified and practically publicly stated everything we all know, which is that the HNS and all those who are part of the HNS are a para-state entity that exists outside of all normative and legal acts in FBiH.

If the HNS is registered according to the law on associations and foundations, then political parties participating in the government cannot be part of the HNS.

If it inherits the tradition of the so-called HZ HB (Krešić claims it does), then it violates the Criminal Code of FBiH and the Criminal Code of BiH.

Therefore, the question now is whether the competent authorities have the desire, will, knowledge, and intention to sanction organizations and individuals who are undermining the constitutional order of the Federation of BiH.

Krešić went a step further and "expects HDZ members and all those involved in the government to, to put it mildly, work on the destruction of the Federation..."

The destruction of BiH in the nineties by various "Krešićs" resulted in thousands of killed, a system of camps and deportations through a criminal enterprise, and if the competent institutions do not react and prosecute individuals and ban the activities of illegal organizations that call for the reaffirmation of the so-called HZ HB, then the appeals of the American Embassy also become "dead letters on paper".

Krešić knows that the President of the Republic of Croatia and representatives of the so-called HZ HB itself signed the abolition of the so-called HZ HB, and that the preceding policy of establishing the so-called HZ HB suffered a political and military defeat in BiH.

We will remind Krešić of what is contained in the verdicts of the Hague Tribunal, which clearly established that the so-called HZ HB was a means of dismembering BiH and an attempt to secede part of BiH's territory, "that Franjo Tuđman, Mate Boban, and Jadranko Prlić, et al., initiated a joint criminal enterprise whose ultimate goal was to unite, in a short or longer period, the territories in BiH claimed to belong to the Croatian Community (future Republic) of Herceg-Bosna within the framework of 'Greater Croatia'. Franjo Tuđman considered that HR HB and HVO were a means for Croatian borders to reach their maximum extent."

The Hague Tribunal also established that "Franjo Tuđman advocated for the division of BiH between Croatia and Serbia, in such a way that part of BiH would be annexed to Croatia or, if that were not possible, by having within BiH an autonomous Croatian territory closely connected to Croatia.

Namely, in the period from 1990, and at the earliest until the end of 1992, Franjo Tuđman met several times with the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, to finalize 'plans' for the division of BiH between Croatia and Serbia: most Bosnian Croats would become part of Croatia, and most Bosnian Serbs would become part of Serbia, leaving Bosnian Muslims only a small autonomous zone around Sarajevo."

Similarly, the Tribunal's judges concluded that "Franjo Tuđman acted in two ways: in one version, he advocated for respecting the existing borders of BiH because he knew that the international community was against the division of BiH, while in the other, he advocated for the division of BiH between Croats and Serbs."

Therefore, we have on the table again everything for which the Hague Tribunal was formed, we have the same projects, only the executors are different, because the first ones are in prison.

When the latter will follow, we will see!