Evidence shows that in the dispute, Croatia's first President, the late Franjo Tudjman, sided with the Herzegovina lobby led by former Croatian Defence Minister Gojko Susak, namely with Boban, said Scott.

He continued producing documents and witness depositions confirming the radicalisation of the relationship towards Muslims on the territory of the Croat Republic of Herceg Bosna and Croatia's involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Bosnian Croat leadership continued strengthening Herceg Bosna, Scott said, describing an initially 'soft' ethnic cleansing there, which he called Croatianisation via language and education cleansing as well as via changes to place names.

When the international community condemned Croatia's involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and asked for the dissolution of all militia units there, in the summer of 1992 Tudjman tried to make the then Bosnian Presidency chairman, Alija Izetbegovic, accept Herceg Bosna and the HVO (Bosnian Croat Defence forces), but Izetbegovic clearly refused to accept the existence of Herceg Bosnia and asked that the HVO be included in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said the prosecutor.

Tudjman and the accused knew they had no agreement with the Muslims, he added.

The six former officials of Herceg Bosna -- Prime Minister Jadranko Prlic, Defence Minister Bruno Stojic, HVO commanders General Slobodan Praljak and General Milivoj Petkovic, HVO Military Police commander Valentin Coric, and the head of the commission for the exchange of prisoners of war, Berislav Pusic -- are charged with crimes against humanity as part of a joint criminal enterprise against Bosniaks and other non-Croats in Bosnian territories they wanted to annexe to Croatia.

Scott said Tudjman spoke about the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Serbia's then president Slobodan Milosevic in Karadjordjevo, Serbia, in 1991.

The prosecutor showed a 40-minute Channel 4 documentary called "Greater Croatia".

He will continue with the closing statement tomorrow.