Association of the Prisoners of War Mostar expressed strong disagreement with a possibility of Croatia deploying its soldiers to the European Union's military mission EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stressing that “victims will not allow that.”
The reaction came as a response to what they called “yet another trial balloon” coming from the neighbouring Croatia.
“The victims do not want and will not allow the arrival of the army that carried out a criminal policy on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and will fight against it with all democratic and available means,” the association said, commenting on allegations that the troops of Croatia, as an EU member state, should join the peacekeeping mission.
It was stressed that there is no culpability of the nation as a whole but that it was the political leadership of the Republic of Croatia with then President Franjo Tudjman and political leadership of so-called Herzeg-Bosnia para-state who were sentenced for a joint criminal enterprise.
According to the association, this was a “stain on the image of Croatian policy that no one will ever be able to erase.”
Croatian leadership including president Zoran Milanovic and foreign minister Gordan Grlic-Radman have recently raised the issue of participation of the Croatian troops in the EUFOR mission, with some of the top Bosnian officials objecting the idea.
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