Official name	City of Vinkovci
native name	''Grad Vinkovci''
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Subdivision name
Subdivision name1	Vukovar-Syrmia
government footnotes
government type	City
leader party	CDU
leader title	Mayor
leader name	Mladen Karlić
area footnotes
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population as of	2001
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demographics1 title3	Hungarians
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Elevation m	90
postal code type	Postal code
postal code	32100
area code type
area code	32
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Website	vinkovci.hr
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Vinkovci () is a town in the Croatia, in the Vukovar-Syrmia County. In 2001 census, the population of the town was 35,455, making it the largest town of the County. Surrounded by many large villages, it is a local transport hub, particularly because of its railways.

History

The site of Vinkovci (, , Latin: ''Colonia Aurelia Cibalae'') was inhabited well before the Roman period The area of the town has been inhabited continually from the Neolithic period. Under the Romans the town was known as ''Colonia Aurelia Cibalae'' and was the birthplace of Roman emperors Valentinian I and Valens. The Roman thermal bath is still preserved underground as are several other Roman buildings located near the center of today's Vinkovci.

It was part of Ottoman Empire between 1526 and 1687 and was managed in Sirem sanjak (Its center was Dimitrofça) in Budin Eyalet. It was captured by Habsburg Empire in 1687 and was left to her according to Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699. Habsburg rule lasted until 1918.

From 1941 to 1945, Vinkovci was part of the Independent State of Croatia. From April 17, 1944 the city was heavily bombed by the Allies due to its important position in transportation.

The city and its surroundings were gravely impacted by the Croatian War of Independence. The city was close to the front lines between the Republic of Croatia and the rebel Serbs, but it managed to avoid the fate of Vukovar (in the infamous Battle of Vukovar). The eastern sections of the town were substantially damaged by shelling, and the nearby village of Cerić was almost completely destroyed. The most significant destruction in the center of the city were the city library, which burned down to the ground, the law courts, the Catholic and Orthodox churches, both hospitals, the theatre, two cinemas and a host of businesses and factories.

In December 1995-1996, the Vinkovci rail station served as a rail offloading base for the United States Army's 1st Armored Division in route to Županja to cross the Sava River into Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor.

The Croatian Ground Army has stationed the headquarters of its Armored-Mechanized Guard Brigade in the Vinkovci barracks "Bosut". The current brigade was formed in 2007 and it incorporates two former guards brigades (3rd and 5th) as well as several other units formed during the war of independence.

Geography

Vinkovci is situated in the eastern part of Slavonia region, southwest of Vukovar, north of Županja and south of Osijek. The city lies in a flatland on the Bosut river, at an elevation of approx. , and has a mild continental climate. Vinkovci is also part of the subregion of Syrmia.

It is connected to all main railroad routes in the region, while the state roads D46 and D55 connect it to the motorways; river Bosut is not a waterway. The nearby villages and adjacent municipalities include Ivankovo, Jarmina, Markušica, Nuštar, Privlaka and Stari Jankovci.

Economy & transportation

Its economy is primarily based on trade, transport and food and metal processing. Industries include foodstuff, building material, wood and timber, metal-processing, leather and textile. Due to the surrounding farmland, also notable are farming and livestock breeding, and the town hosts a Crop Improvement Centre.

Vinkovci is the main railway junction of eastern Croatia, of railroads leading from Bosnia and Herzegovina toward Hungary and from the capital Zagreb toward Belgrade. The large railway junction, after Zagreb the second largest in Croatia, underlies the importance of transit in Vinkovci. Vinkovci is also the meeting point of the Posavina and Podravina roads and the intersection of the main road D55 Županja–Vinkovci–Vukovar and several regional roads.

Vinkovci and its rail station are featured in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express as the place where the Orient Express breaks down.

Culture

The town features extremely rich cultural and historical heritage, the most interesting attraction being the pre-Romanesque church on Meraja from 1100, with the coats of arms of the kings Koloman and Ladislas, as one of the most important medieval cultural monuments in Croatia. Unfortunately, this monument has recently had the ancient timber beams removed and a new, modern, brick upper section and roof added, totally destroying its appearance. Luckily the building is hidden in summer by mature trees.

The most famous annual event, one of the biggest in Slavonia, is the folk music festival "Vinkovci Autumns" (''Vinkovačke Jeseni''), which includes the folklore show and the presentation of folk customs of Slavonia. It is characterized by a number of original folk music performances, beautiful traditional costumes, a beauty contest, competitions of the manufacturers of ''kulen'' (smoked paprika-flavoured sausage), plum brandy and other traditional foodstuffs, and especially by the magnificent closing parade.

Vinkovci's music school Josip Runjanin is named after the composer of the Croatian national anthem ''Lijepa nasa domovino''. The Vinkovci gymnasium is named after Matija Antun Reljković, a Slavonian writer who lived in the city in the 18th century.

Monuments and Sights

Vinkovačke jeseni

Famous natives and residents

Valens, Roman Emperor

Valentinian, Roman Emperor

Branko Karačić, footballer/manager

Vlado Štefančić, musical singer/director

Vanja Drach, actor

Josip Kozarac, writer

Ivan Kozarac, writer

Dubravko Mataković, cartoonist

Rade Šerbedžija, actor

Josip Runjanin, composer of Croatian anthem

Mario Kasun, basketballer

Mirko Filipović, Kickboxer and Mixed Martial-Arts fighter

Hrvoje Majić, Tamburaš

Ivica Čuljak alias Satan Panonski, punk-singer and poet

Goran Bare, rock singer (Majke, ''Hali Gali Halid'')

Colonia, Croatian music group

Josip Šokčević, Croatian viceroy

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Vinkovci is twinned with:

	* Camponogara, Italy	* Emmendingen, Germany	* Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia		Koprivnica, Croatia	* Kőbánya (Budapest), Hungary	* Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sport

A local football club still carries the Latin name for Vinkovci, ''Cibalia''.

References

Bibliography

Notes

External links

Vinkovci – Official site

Category:Cities and towns in Croatia Category:Slavonia Category:Places in Syrmia

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Name	Ante Gotovina
Birth date	October 12, 1955
Birth place	Tkon, Zadar County, SFR YugoslaviaToday Croatia
Nickname	Andrija Grabovac
Allegiance
Branch	French Army
Serviceyears	1970s French Foreign Legion, 1991–1995
Rank	Caporal-chef in French ArmyLieutenant general (''general pukovnik'') of the Croatian Army
Commands	Croatian Army Command
Battles	Djibouti, Kolwezi, Zaire, Ivory Coast,Croatian War of IndependenceOperation Maslenica (1993)Operation Summer '95 (1995)Operation Storm (1995)Operation Mistral (1995)
Awards	Red kneza Domagoja - 26.05.1995.Red bana Jelačića - 26.05.1995.Red hrvatskog trolista - 20.05.1996.Red hrvatskog križa - 20.05.1996.
Laterwork	Retired, convicted
Religion	Roman Catholic }}

Ante Gotovina (born October 12, 1955) is a former Senior Corporal (''Caporal Chef'') of the French Foreign Legion and former Lieutenant General (''general pukovnik'') of the Croatian Army who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, accusing him of a "joint criminal enterprise" in an effort to expel Krajina Serbs from Croatia in 1995 during Operation Storm. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands on December 7, 2005. On April 15, 2011, Gotovina was found guilty on seven of the eight counts of the indictment and sentenced to 24 years of imprisonment.

French Foreign Legion and after

At the age of sixteen, Gotovina left home to become a sailor. In 1973, before turning eighteen, he joined the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym of Andrija Grabovac and became a member of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) after qualifying at the Training School in Pau before joining the elite ''Commandos de Recherche et d'Action en Profondeur'' (CRAP) now renamed as ''Parachute Commando Group'' (GCP). It was there he met Dominique Erulin, brother of the Colonel Philippe Erulin, who would be his friend and partner in future missions. In the next few years, he participated in Foreign Legion operations in Djibouti, the Battle of Kolwezi in Zaire, and missions in the Ivory Coast, becoming Colonel Erulin's driver. After five years of service, he left the Legion with the rank of ''caporal-chef''; he obtained French citizenship in 1979.

He subsequently worked for a variety of French private security companies during the 1980s, among them KO International Company, a filial of VHP Security, known as a cover for the ''Service d'Action Civique'' (SAC), and was at this time responsible for the security of far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. In 1981, together with Dominique Erulin, he helped editor Jean-Pierre Mouchard (a close friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen) organize a commando to free his press in La Seyne-sur-Mer, occupied by CGT trade-union strikers.

According to French police records, he became involved in criminal activities, which led to arrest warrants being issued for robbery and extortion; it has been reported that he served at least one two-year prison sentence, though this has been denied by his attorneys. Dominique Erulin claims the accusations were a political ploy made up by the left-wing factions allied with President François Mitterrand. Towards the end of the decade he moved to South America, where he provided training to a number of right-wing paramilitary organizations, notably in Argentina and Guatemala. He met his future wife, Ximena Dalel, in Colombia and had a daughter; they later divorced.

Arrested during a travel to France (Paris), he was sentenced in 1986 to five years of prison by Paris' ''Cour d'assise''. He was freed the next year, "in circumstances showing that he was benefiting from very particular protections". However, Gotovina's lawyers have submitted a brief to the International War Crimes Tribunal alleging that Gotovina was in fact framed by a criminal police group loyal to Francois Mitterrand, a group which was convicted for official misconduct by French courts in 2005.

Return to Croatia

In 1991, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. The Serbian government, led by its President Slobodan Milošević, then launched various paramilitary militias to take control of various parts of Croatia, eventually followed by a conventional military assault from the Yugoslav National Army which had come under the ''de facto'' control of the Serbian President. The new Croatian army, formed in haste, managed to stop the advance of Belgrade's troops, and Croatia was internationally recognised on 15 January 1992. The Belgrade army then withdrew but left the third of Croatia in which there lived the significant Serb population in the hands of the local Serbs. The rebels had first formed "Autonomous Serb Districts" (''Srpske autonomne oblasti'' or SAOs) which merged into a self-proclaimed "Republic of the Serb Krajina" (''Republika Srpske Krajine'' or RSK) in 1991. Half of the Croatian Serbs who, according to the 1991 census, represented 12.16 percent of the country's population, lived there, mostly concentrated in Northern Dalmatia, the Lika, the Banovina, the Kordun along the Bosnian border, Western Slavonia around Pakrac and in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia near the border with Serbia.

Gotovina returned to Croatia in 1991 and enlisted in the Croatian National Guard (ZNG), the first organized military body of what would become the Croatian Army. He was an efficient commander and had the advantage – shared by relatively few other Croatian soldiers – of combat experience. He fought in western Slavonia: in Novska and Nova Gradiška. He soon caught the attention of his superiors, and when the Croatian Army was established as such in 1992, Gotovina was promoted to Colonel. As a colonel he was, along with Janko Bobetko and Anto Roso one of the main organizers of Operation Maslenica, which restored Croatia's territorial continuity in Dalmatia.

By 1994 he had risen to the rank of major-general and, as a ''general-pukovnik'' and commanding officer of the Split military district he organized key military operations: the defense of Livno and Tomislavgrad from the troops of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić, and the ten-month war of attrition which broke the Serb defenses in the Plain of Livno, the Dinara Ridge and the Šator mountain. He led the conquest of Glamoč and Bosansko Grahovo (Operation Summer '95), which enabled him to close from the east the encirclement of Knin, the "capital" of the self-proclaimed "Republic of the Serb Krajina" (RSK). This ensured the conditions for the rapid success of Operation ''Oluja'' ("Storm") of August 4–6, 1995, in the course of which forces under his command captured Knin, which the Croats called the "Royal City of Croatia" since it had been the capital of the Croatian Kingdom in the Middle Ages.

Gotovina was then immediately put in charge of the combined forces of the Croatian Army (''Hrvatska Vojska'' or HV) and the Croatian Defense Council in Bosnia (''Hrvatsko Vijeće Obrane'' or HVO) in Operation Mistral, which defeated the army of the Bosnian Serbs and led the Croatian army, together with the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina, within 23 kilometres of Banja Luka and was only stopped under American pressure. His success is why he is seen as a hero by many Croats.

In 1996, he became the chief of the Army Inspectorate. In September 2000, Gotovina was a signatory to the Twelve Generals' Letter, and was subsequently dismissed from active service.

War crimes indictment

In July 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued sealed indictments to the Croatian government seeking the arrest of Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač for war crimes.

''Gotovina, together with his co-accused Mladen Markač, a former commander of the special police of Croatia's interior ministry, and Ivan Čermak, assistant defense minister from 1991 to 1993, is charged with leading the three month long “Operation Storm", which resulted in the recapture of Croatia's Serb-held Krajina region in 1995 and changed the course of the war of independence. The three stand accused of aiding and abetting the murders of 324 Krajina Serb civilians and prisoners of war by "shooting, burning and/or stabbing" them and forcibly displacing almost 90,000 Serb civilians. Gotovina was charged with five counts of crimes against humanity (persecutions, deportation inhumane acts, murder) and four counts of violations of the laws or customs of war (plunder, wanton destruction, murder, cruel treatment) but he denied all charges."''

''Gotovina was convicted of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, persecution and inhuman acts, during and immediately after a lightning campaign called Operation Storm that seized back land along Croatia's eastern border taken over by rebel Serbs early in the Balkan wars. Dozens of Serbs were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes.'' ''Presiding Judge Alphons Orie cited one witness who recalled finding his elderly mother and mentally ill brother shot dead after hearing a Croatian soldier say, "I killed another one."'' ''The first prosecution witness in the case told judges artillery shells rained down on the city of Knin, hitting apartment blocks and a medical clinic.'' ''"As I ran, shells were falling around me," the witness said. Her identity was not released by the court.''

For the four years (2001–2005), Gotovina remained at large despite intense pressure from the United States and the European Union for his surrender. In September 2005, ICTY's chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte claimed she had information that he was hiding in a Franciscan monastery in Croatia or Bosnian Croat territory. She went to the Vatican to ask for help in locating him, but told The Daily Telegraph that Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo had refused to help, telling her that the Vatican was not a state and thus had "no international obligations". Her comments infuriated the Church in Croatia as well as the Vatican, whose spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the archbishop asked Del Ponte what evidence she had to her claims, but she didn't provide any.

Foreign countries sought to track down Gotovina, and an Interpol warrant was issued for his arrest. The United States announced a $5 million (€4.2 million) reward for his capture. It was reported that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) had sought to find Gotovina but that it had been thwarted after its intelligence officers were exposed in the Croatian media, allegedly at the behest of Gotovina's allies in one of Croatia' many intelligence services, the POA (''Protuobavještajna agencija'' or "Counter-Intelligence Agency"). The resulting scandal led to the sacking and replacement of POA head Franjo Turek.

The United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and some Scandinavian states made the surrender of Gotovina a precondition for Croatia's accession to the European Union. This stance was criticised by the Croatian government, which claimed that it did not know where Gotovina was, that he was probably outside the country and that it was doing all it could to bring him to justice. Accession negotiations with the EU, scheduled to start on March 17, 2005, were postponed pending a resolution of the issue. Croatia's bid for accession was finally accepted in October 2005 as part of a deal with Austria, which gained Croatia's admission in exchange for dropping its opposition to Turkey's candidacy. The ICTY announced at the same time that Croatia was then "cooperating fully" with the tribunal, but did not provide further details.

Public attitude towards Gotovina

Many Croatians continue to regard Gotovina as a war hero and reject the assertion that he is guilty of crimes. But others say that Croatia's prospects depend far more on the country's accession to the EU than on the fate of one man, and General Ademi's voluntary surrender to the ICTY raised the question of why Gotovina did not follow suit. Both left and right-wing parties in Croatia have been accused of using Gotovina as a means of drumming up political support.

During his flight, Gotovina became a prominent icon of Croatian popular culture. Marko Perković and Miroslav Škoro, two popular Croatian musicians known for their right-wing views, recorded songs with lyrics implicitly praising the general and his flight. Both songs became huge hits, especially among younger fans. In 2006, the two most popular football teams in the country, Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split, played a game in which all proceeds went to help finance Croatian generals.

Gotovina's popularity can be explained through several reasons: most obvious, he is regarded by many as a war hero. His flight fits the ancient Croatian stereotype of an outlaw, especially the hajduk - a person who defies distant and tyrannical authorities, this time embodied in The Hague, Brussels and other Western capitals whose governments demanded his arrest. There is an outlaw-celebrating culture of hajduks in Dinaric regions like the Dalmatian hinterland and neighbouring Croat-inhabited western Herzegovina and, in general, in all of the Balkans. Other Croats, regardless of their regional background, political persuasion or even attitude to wartime atrocities, praised Gotovina's flight as an act of defiance towards the Croatian political establishment.

In March 2005, a survey conducted on behalf of the U.S. Embassy in Croatia reported that 39% surveyed "completely disagree" that it is in Croatia's interest to extradite Gotovina while 15% "mostly disagree." Unofficial polls by television programs showed strong support, with over 90% of callers saying that they would prefer Gotovina to remain at large even if it meant not joining the European Union.

After Gotovina's arrest in Spain, several rallies and protests took place in Croatian cities. On December 11, 2005 (the first Sunday after his arrest), a rally organised by war veterans attracted between 40,000 and 70,000 Croatians in the city of Split to protest the arrest. Several retired generals attended the rally and expressed their support for Gotovina. On the same day, rallies were held in several other cities in Croatia, but with smaller attendance (in Zagreb some 500 people gathered).

Polls taken by the PULS Agency after Gotovina's arrest showed that 61% of the Croatian public saw Gotovina's arrest as bad news, while 14% saw it as good news, and the rest didn't know or have an opinion. On whether or not the accusations against the general had merit, 62% found the accusations baseless while only 17% thought they had merit, and the rest did not know. According to another opinion poll published by the left leaning newspaper ''Jutarnji list'' on December 11, 60% of those surveyed believed that Gotovina was not guilty of the criminal acts with which he had been charged, 17% believed that he was mostly not responsible, and only one respondent believed that he was completely responsible. 53.4% said that the arrest was bad for Croatia, while only 23.3% said that it was good for the country. 44.6% believed that Gotovina's capture would make it easier for Croatia to join the European Union, though 36.2% believed it would not .

In 2001 the Croatian writer Nenad Ivanković wrote a biography of Ante Gotovina titled ''Warrior-Adventurer and General (A Biography)''. The Croatian filmmaker Dejan Šorak wrote and directed ''Dva igrača s klupe'', a black comedy released in 2005 whose plot is inspired by the events surrounding the ICTY indictment against Ante Gotovina.

Capture and extradition

On December 7, 2005, Gotovina was captured by Spanish police and special forces in the resort of Playa de las Américas on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. He was said to have been traveling on two fake Croatian passports using the names, Kristijan Horvat and Stjepan Senicic. His passport contained border stamps of several countries, including Argentina, Chile, Russia, China, Czech Republic and Tahiti. A sum of money amounting to €12,000 was discovered in his room. He was immediately flown to Madrid, where he was imprisoned in advance of a court hearing to extradite him to the ICTY prison at The Hague. Spanish police were later reported to have been tracking him for several days, apparently following a lead supplied by the Croatian intelligence service, who have been tapping his wife Dunja's phone. The involvement of Croatian authorities has been backed up by the Carla's List documentary, a part of which is available on YouTube.

On December 10, 2005, Gotovina was flown to The Hague, where he appeared before the ICTY on December 12. He pleaded not guilty to the seven charges brought against him, which were all preceded with "acting individually and/or through [his] participation in the joint criminal enterprise, planned, instigated, ordered, committed, and/or aided and abetted the planning, preparation, and/or execution of":

Persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds, deportation and other inhumane acts (forced displacement) - three counts of crimes against humanity

Other inhumane acts - one count of a crime against humanity

Murder - one count of a violation of the laws or customs of war

Plunder of public or private property and wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages - two counts of violations of the laws or customs of war.

According to his lawyer, Gotovina has declared that he is "not the man described in each and every count."

Following the death of Slobodan Milošević (who was imprisoned in ICTY prison cell just next to that of Gotovina), Ante Gotovina signed a condolence note to his family (together with Mladen Naletilić Tuta, Paško Ljubičić, Ivica Rajić and other Croat and Serb detainees, making the list 34 signatures long) which was published in Belgrade's ''Politika'' and ''Večernje novosti'' newspapers. Gotovina's attorney stated he signed because of his Catholic faith which stresses forgiveness.

Trial

At the end of 2006 Gotovina's case was joined with cases against Ivan Čermak and Mladen Markač as it relates to the same events (Operation Storm). The trial was expected to begin in May 2007 but was postponed indefinitely due to conflicts between lawyers on the defence bench. Gotovina's lawyers are Luka Misetic, an American attorney of Croatian descent, Greg Kehoe, the American lawyer who advised the prosecution in the Iraqi Special Tribunal case against Saddam Hussein, and Payam Akhavan, former Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office of the ICTY.

The trial began on March 11, 2008, and concluded in September 2010 with the delivery of closing arguments. Misetic said he expected a verdict in two to 10 months' time, as has been the case with the tribunal's decisions to date. On April 15, 2011, Gotovina was found guilty on 7 of the 8 counts of the indictment and sentenced to 24 years of imprisonment.

Reactions

In Croatia's capital Zagreb, thousands gathered to watch the sentence being given out live on large screens and loudly protested the decision. Croatian prime minister Jadranka Kosor stated that the idea of a "joint criminal enterprise" was "unacceptable" as many Croatians feel it was part of their war for independence. War veterans staged a march in the Croatian capital in protest. About 10,000 showed up to the march, chanting slogans against the Kosor-led government and the EU as protesters removed and ripped apart the European Union flag from a flagpole at the main square, replacing it with the Croatian flag.

A poll done immediately after the verdict showed that 95.4% of Croatians felt that the judgment against Gotovina was unjust, and 88% still saw him as a hero. Support for Croatia's accession to the European Union plummeted to 23.8%.

In June 2011, Ante Gotovina was ranked the second most creditable individual for the creation of the sovereign and democratic Croatia in a large poll conducted by Večernji list.

References

Further reading

Very short biography "Croatie: des héros encombrants", RIVAROL N° 2640 French translation of ''Jutarnji list's'' investigation

What Did the CIA Know?, Roy Gutman, NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL, 27 August 2001

"Amb. Prosper and the Wanted Men" Vitomir Miles Raguz, ''Wall Street Journal - Europe'', 24 January 2003

"Over 60 per cent [of] Croatian citizens consider Gotovina innocent", ''Jutarnji list'' (Croatia), 11 December 2005

"War Crimes Case Revives Passions in a Torn Croatia", ''New York Times'', 12 December 2005

"War crimes accused says he's 'not the man'", ''The Scotsman'', 13 December 2005

How fair can War Crimes Tribunal be with this Prosecutor?, Jos Verhulst, ''The Brussels Journal'', 16 December 2005

Operation Storm Destroyed “Greater Serbia”, Brian Gallagher, ''Balkan Insight'' 20 January 2006

"America, The Hague and Ante Gotovina: The Railroading of a Former U.S. Ally" Robin Harris, ''The American Spectator'', March 2006

External links

- Indictment of Ante Gotovina at ICTY Croatian Worldwide Association - Website for supporters of Gotovina and other Croats indicted by ICTY More Views about Ante Gotovina - website with different views Ante Gotovina: Gangster, General, National Hero... War Criminal? Ante Gotovina: Hague Justice Portal Searching for a Storm - documentary film website about the Ante Gotovina case at the ICTY

Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:People from Tkon Category:People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Category:People of the Croatian War of Independence Category:Croatian army officers Category:Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion

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