Commenting on the Hague tribunal's verdict against the wartime Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army, Momcilo Perisic, sentencing him to 27 years in prison for war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday sentences for crimes such as those committed by Perisic were always to short, regardless of their length.
Asked if in his opinion 27 years in prison for Perisic was enough to satisfy justice, Josipovic said that any sentence for such crimes was too small, stressing however that the ICTY had its standards.
Josipovic said he regretted that the judgement did not cover some other crimes, crimes against Croatia and Croatian citizens, adding that everything would be revealed in the appeals process.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today sentenced Perisic, wartime Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army, to 27 years in prison for aiding and abetting the siege of Sarajevo and the murder of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, as well as for failure to punish his subordinates for missile attacks on Zagreb. He was acquitted of charges of aiding and abetting extermination as a crime against humanity in Srebrenica.
