A group of five war veterans, who started a hunger strike in downtown Zagreb on Tuesday, continued their campaign on Wednesday, with one more veteran joining them in protest against the verdict of the Hague war crimes tribunal against Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac.
The protesters, who spent the night in the central Bana Josipa Jelacica Square, said there was no political organisation or association behind their decision to go on a hunger strike.
Many citizens have expressed support to us, the hunger-strikers said, adding that more veterans would join them.
The Hague tribunal last Friday sentenced Gotovina to 24 years in prison pending appeal, while Markac was sentenced to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed in the 1995 Operation Storm. A third defendant in the case, General Ivan Cermak, was acquitted.
