The federation of veterans' associations from Zadar County decided at a meeting on Wednesday to participate in a peaceful rally of Croatian war veterans due to take place in The Hague on September 24.
The rally is being organised by the Croatian World Congress under the slogan "Justice has lost balance".
The federation said in a statement that the purpose of the protest rally was to express deep disappointment over "politically orchestrated verdicts" against Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac and the accused Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina and over "a ludicrous assessment" of the 1995 Croatian military offensive known as Operation Storm as a joint criminal enterprise.
"These verdicts are not just verdicts on our generals and other Croat prisoners, on Operation Storm and on the Croatian people, they are also verdicts on the European and international judiciary and justice," the statement said.
"Operation Storm is no criminal enterprise, but a legitimate, liberating military and police operation, while generals Gotovina and Markac are honourable men and our heroes," the statement said.
The federation said it would organise free transport to The Hague and back.
