The defence for general Ante Gotovina on Monday pressed charges at the Zagreb Municipal Prosecutor's Office against three UN observers for covering up or destroying artillery logs from the 1995 Operation Storm.
Gotovina's attorney Luka Misetic pressed charges against Russian observers Alexander Chernetsky and Viktor Tarusin and Briton Peter Gage Williams, on suspicion of covering up or destroying documents on the activities of the Croatian artillery during Operation Storm, namely Croatia's archive material.
Gotovina's defence claims that Chernetsky found in Bosnia in 1995 Croatian Army military documents about the use of artillery during Operation Storm and gave them to the head of the UN observer unit, Major General Williams, who forwarded the documents to the information officer, Colonel Tarusin, after which they were nowhere to be seen again.
The so-called artillery logs have been the "stumbling stone" in relations between Croatia and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia which asked the Croatian government to either locate the documents or establish who had them last.
The ICTY prosecution asked for the artillery logs for the purposes of the trial against generals Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac who, among other things, are charged with excessive and random shelling of the former Serb stronghold of Knin.
