The President of the Association of Serbs from the Region, Miodrag Linta, stated that the arrest of Serb Milovan Peric (72) by the Croatian police for an alleged war crime represents the continuity of a long-standing deliberate persecution of Krajina fighters.
Milovan Peric is originally from the village of Todic near Udbina, and lives in Serbia. He was exiled with his family and the Krajina people in the operation “Storm”. Since 2019, he occasionally went to his homeland and started restoring his house and property. Seven years after his first trip to Croatia, the Croatian police arrested him at the Tovarnik border crossing on a warrant.
“The goal of Croatia is to intimidate exiled Serbs through the constant arrests of Krajina fighters so that they do not come to their villages and towns to restore and maintain their properties, as well as to justify the false myth of the Homeland War, according to which the Serbs are supposedly aggressors and criminals, and the Croats are supposedly liberators and victims,” stated Miodrag Linta, as announced by the Association of Serbs from the Region.
“It is completely clear that the principle of the rule of law is being brutally violated in Croatia, because Serbs are being arrested without any concrete evidence that they committed a war crime. Croatia organizes staged court proceedings based on assumptions and false statements of cooperating witnesses,” emphasizes Linta.
He calls on the Minister of Justice Nenad Vujic to urgently initiate a conversation with the Croatian Minister of Justice Damir Habijan regarding the persecution of Krajina fighters.
“Serbia should clearly tell Croatia that it is unacceptable for Krajina fighters to be arrested based on warrants without any concrete evidence and for staged court proceedings to be organized,” emphasizes Linta.
As he adds, the Ministry of Justice of Serbia has an obligation to provide legal and financial assistance to Milovan Peric and all other Krajina fighters against whom criminal proceedings are currently being conducted by the ethnically motivated and biased Croatian judiciary, whether they are free or in prisons in Croatia.
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