The non-governmental organisation "The Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa" has joined in demands for legal action against the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Carla del Ponte, for issuing some of the war crimes indictments for political reasons, the Sarajevo newspaper Dnevni Avaz said on Wednesday.
The NGO's representatives Hajra Catic and Hatidza Mehmedovic have sent a letter to Luka Misetic, a defence attorney for Croatian general Ante Gotovina before the ICTY, and to defence counsel for former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj, who have announced legal action against Del Ponte, asking them for assistance in prosecuting her.
"We want her to be taken to account for bringing charges against (Bosnian army wartime commanders) Naser Oric, Sefer Halilovic and Rasim Delic," they wrote, recalling that Oric and Halilovic had been cleared of all charges before the tribunal, while Delic had died while trying to prove his innocence.
The NGO noted that it was important to establish her responsibility for classifying documents of the Yugoslav Supreme Defence Council, including personal dossiers of Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic and other Yugoslav army generals responsible for war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa consider it to be "shameful and humiliating" that Del Ponte approved a decision to destroy some of the documents relating to victims of the Srebrenica genocide which had been used as evidence in trials at the ICTY.
