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	Janko Bobetko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Janko Bobetko (1919 - 2003) was a Croat army general and the chief of the General Staff of the Croatian army between 1992 and 1995.
		During WWII he was a brigade commander in Tito's partisan army and in the post-war period rose to the rank of lieutenant-general.
		Bobetko refused to accept the indictment and refused to surrender to the court, indignantly claiming that such an indictment questions the legitimacy of the whole military operation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janko_Bobetko (267 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Croatia's ex-army chief, indicted by U.N. court for war crimes, dies
		Bobetko spent his last days at his home in Zagreb, after demanding on April 23 to be released from a hospital, where he had been treated for heart and kidney ailments since November.
		The indictment charged Bobetko with responsibility in the killing of at least 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during Croatia's 1993 offensive to retake a central Croatian area seized by the Serb rebels in the 1991 war.
		Bobetko was born on Jan. 10, 1919, in a village near Sisak, central Croatia.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030429-0450-obit-bobetko.html (640 words)

	Janko BOBETKO IT-02-62
		1. Janko BOBETKO was born on 10 January 1919 in the village of Crnac in the Sisak region of Croatia.
		3. On 10 April 1992, Janko BOBETKO was appointed by the late Franjo Tudjman, President of the Republic of Croatia, as Corps General (General Zbora) of the Croatian army, Hrvatska Vojska (HV) and Commander of the Southern Front.
		Janko BOBETKO acting individually and/or in concert with others, planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of the plunder of property of Serb civilians of the Medak Pocket.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/bob-ii020826-e.htm (2442 words)

	Croatian World Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was an anti-fascist fighter in World War II and advocate of Croatian national interests in socialist Yugoslavia, a commander-in-chief in independent Croatia in the 1990s, and an indictee of the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague in the last year of his life.
		Bobetko was born on 10 January 1919 in the village of Crnac near Sisak.
		Bobetko commanded the forces which carried out operations in the areas of Dubrovnik, Ploce and the Neretva River valley and liberated Dubrovnik and its hinterland.
	www.crowc.org /english/news/print.asp?id=171 (489 words)

	Croatia's Ex-Army Chief Bobetko Dies - Global Policy Forum - International Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bobetko, the most senior Croatian officer sought by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, was never tried because of his ill health.
		Bobetko spent his last days at his Zagreb home after demanding April 23 to be released from a hospital, where he had been treated since November.
		The tribunal indictment charged Bobetko with responsibility in the killings of at least 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during Croatia's 1993 offensive to retake a central Croatian area seized by the Serb rebels in the 1991 war.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/tribunals/yugo/2003/0429bobet.htm (570 words)

	Boastful general claimed, then denied killing civilians - smh.com.au
		General Janko Bobetko, who has died in Zagreb aged 84, was the former head of the Croatian army charged with war crimes following the publication of his best-selling autobiography.
		Janko Bobetko was born in the village of Crnac, near Sisak.
		Bobetko's vigorous response to the charges against him was to declare that he would never be taken alive - and that the Hague tribunal should be ashamed of having pressed charges "against Europe's oldest living anti-fascist fighter".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/04/1051987603669.html (601 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Janko Bobetko was born in a small village near the Croatian town of Sibenik in 1919.
		It failed, but Bobetko continued the struggle, becoming a political commissar with the 3rd and 4th Brigades of the VII Division of Tito’s partisan forces, and ending the war as commissar for the XXXII Division.
		Bobetko, like many successful soldiers, was not strong on modesty or elf-effacement, and often belittled the contribution of others to the victories he wished to claim as his own.
	www.ucm.es /BUCM/be/prensa/2003/05/1/articulos/46 (1095 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Bobetko had served as a commander in the army during the Patriotic War, as it is called in Croatia, and was chief of staff from November 1992 until July 1995.
		Since Bobetko is 84 and seriously ill, Racan and the government claimed that he would not survive the trip to the Netherlands or the trial.
		During this time, General Bobetko was being treated for his heart condition at home because he did not want to be hospitalized without promises that he would not be seized and transferred to The Hague.His health was rapidly deteriorating, despite ongoing medical care.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11_12num4_1/constitutionwatch/croatia.html (1758 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Croatia's indicted wartime army chief leaves hospital for Easter, AFP, April 22nd 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Retired general Janko Bobetko, who doctors say is suffering from diabetes and heart problems, left hospital in Zagreb on Saturday, radio quoted his doctor Mijo Bergovec as saying.
		The UN tribunal agreed with Zagreb's assertion that Bobetko was currently too ill to be extradited to The Hague to stand trial, but in March it requested his formal indictment.
		Bobetko was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) last September for the killings of at least 100 Serb civilians in a 1993 military operation to retake a rebel Serb-held area in central Croatia.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2003/April_22/1.html (323 words)

	The charges faced by Croatian wartime commander Bobetko Agence France Presse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		THE HAGUE, April 29 - Janko Bobetko, the Croatian wartime army commander who died on Tuesday, had been indicted by the UN war crimes court for his alleged role in a bloody campaign against a rebel Serb-held area in 1993.
		Bobetko, 84, was accused of having personal responsibility for the killing of 100 Serb civilians by Croatian forces in an area known as the Medak pocket during Croatia's 1991-1995 war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
		"Janko Bobekto, by virtue of his high-ranking position as chief of the main staff of the Croatian army, played a central role in developing, planning, authorising, ordering and executing the military operation in the Medak pocket," according to the indictment.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/afp042903.htm (384 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bobetko was charged last September with being in charge of the first serious offensive of the war — the attack on the Serb-held Medak pocket in 1993.
		Although Bobetko was not present, he was accused by Hague prosecutors of being responsible, both for the conduct of the operation and for failing to insure an investigation of the atrocities afterwards.
		Bobetko died on April 29, with his family in attendance, at his luxurious villa in the prestigious Zagreb suburb of Tuskanac.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/tri/tri_310_4_eng.txt (1258 words)

	Croatians Pay Mass Tribute to Wartime Army Chief Indicted by UN Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bobetko, who died at his home on Tuesday of heart failure at the age of 84, was to be laid to rest with the highest military honours later on Friday in his hometown of Sisak, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Zagreb.
		The indictment was met with outrage by many Croatians, who consider Bobetko a hero of the 1991-95 war of independence from the former Yugoslavia and threatened the moderate government with a righ-wing revolt.
		The UN court agreed in February that Bobetko was too frail to be extradited to the Hague-based court to stand trial.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/may03/hed5735.shtml (451 words)

	December 3, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But Croatia is refusing to hand over General Bobetko, setting off a dispute that highlights its problems in coming to terms with acts committed from 1991 to 1995, when it fought for independence against rebel Croatian Serbs backed by Serbia and the Yugoslav Army.
		Nonetheless, the indictment of General Bobetko, an 83-year-old diabetic with serious heart problems who is said by doctors to be critically ill, has touched a raw nerve.
		"Janko Bobetko, acting individually and/or in concert with others, planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of persecutions of Serb civilians of the Medak Pocket on racial, political or religious grounds," the indictment says.
	www.genocidewatch.org /ICTYCroatgeneral.htm (1031 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Hell No, He Won't Go -- Oct. 07, 2002
		Janko Bobetko, 83 and ailing, had been keeping a low profile in Zagreb, intent on living out his days in the quiet comfort of the villa he shares with Magdalena, his wife of 57 years.
		The tribunal's five-count indictment, unsealed on Sept. 20, charges Bobetko, the Croatian army's former Chief of Staff, with "crimes against humanity" and "violations of the laws or customs of war" during the conflict in the autonomous Serbian region of Krajina in 1993.
		The accusations against Bobetko stem from a nine-day Croatian military operation in rural Krajina's "Medak pocket." From Sept. 9 to 17, 1993, according to the indictment, Croatian forces attacked and plundered Serb villages, unlawfully killing at least 100 Serbs while others were shot, stabbed, mutilated and otherwise inhumanely treated.
	time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901021007-356052,00.html (749 words)

	Judicial Supplement 38 - The Prosecutor v. Janko Bobetko - Case No. IT-02-62-AR54 bis & IT-02-62-AR108 bis
		On 17 September 2002, an indictment against Janko Bobetko was confirmed by Judge Liu.
		Croatia submitted that because Bobetko satisfies all the requirements for provisional release, he need not be arrested since he would at once be granted provisional release.
		Bobetko, IT-02-62-AR54bis & IT-02-62-AR108 bis, Separate Opinion of Judge David Hunt and Judge Fausto Pocar on Challenge by Croatia to Decision and Orders of Confirming Judge, 29 November 2002.
	www.un.org /icty/Supplement/supp38-e/bobetko.htm (1974 words)

	June 28, 1997 Vreme News Digest Agency No 299 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1991, Bobetko was not actively commanding and, as he himself admits, his role - although in no way debatable - was mainly of the counseling nature.
		Unlike many of the others "who had deluded themselves in their euphoric state that no one could harm them", writes Bobetko, "I was well acquainted with the power of the JNA and was aware that it would not easily allow Croatia its independence".
		An element of surprise yet again, another great victory for general Bobetko and, after he had been ordained with the highest military and government credits, he was forced to retire on July 15, 1995.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/299/t299-8.htm (1342 words)

	Croatian World Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Expressing condolences to Bobetko's family on behalf of the Armed Forces, the Chief-of-Staff, Lieutenant General Josip Lucic, said the Armed Forces were forever indebted to Bobetko for his great deeds.
		Patiently and steadfastly, Bobetko built an army which was able to first stop and later, in operations "Flash" and "Storm", force the aggressor out of the country, Lucic added.
		General Janko Bobetko will be bid goodbye at Zagreb's central cemetery of Mirogoj on Friday, May 2, and will be buried on the same day in the village of Crnac in Sisak County, where he was born.
	www.crowc.org /english/news/print.asp?id=176 (291 words)

	Wartime Army Chief Wanted By U.N. Tribunal Dies At 84; More
		The wartime army chief of Croatia, Janko Bobetko, died yesterday at his home in Zagreb at the age of 84, ending efforts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague to put him on trial for war crimes.
		Regarded as a hero in Croatia, Bobetko was the highest-ranking Croatian officer the U.N. tribunal sought to try for war crimes for his role in fighting that erupted in the Balkans in 1991.
		The tribunal's indictment accused Bobetko of being responsible for the deaths of at least 100 Serb civilians in 1993, when he oversaw a military operation aimed at retaking an area in central Croatia from rebel Serbs.
	www.unwire.org /unwire/20030430/33459_story.asp (349 words)

	Distributed by CroatianWorld
		But the indictment against Bobetko, the leading figure of Croatia's 1991 war for independence and the highest-ranking Croat to be accused of war crimes, has caused an uproar in this country of 4.5 million, where Croat fighters are widely regarded as national heroes.
		Bobetko is charged with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war.
		Tribunal prosecutors claim that Bobetko knew his troops were killing Serbs and devastating their villages in a Serb-dominated area known as the Medak pocket, and failed to prevent or punish the crimes.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/1422.htm (466 words)

	EVENING NEWS, 2.5.2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Retired Croatian General Janko Bobetko was buried on Friday at Sisak's central cemetery with the highest military honours and a religious service in the presence of his family, fellow fighters, residents of his hometown of Crnac and some 25,000 people from around Croatia and abroad.
		Commenting on the ICTY indictment against Bobetko, Basarac said that those who had fought for Croatia's freedom had not been able to live in freedom over the past few years and that Croatia’s generals, soldiers and citizens would continue to protect free and democratic Croatia.
		Croatian President Stjepan Mesiæ said on Friday he was unable to attend today's funeral of General Janko Bobetko because of a previously scheduled visit to the Slavonski Brod-Posavina County and the town of Orahovica.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2003/05/03/ENG.html (633 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bobetko's wife of more than 50 years, Magdalena, has told journalists her husband will not accept the indictment, "as it is not an indictment against him, but against Croatia".
		The prime minister visited Bobetko at his villa in the exclusive Zagreb suburb of Tuskanac on October 14, but two hours of private talks failed to convince the indictee to play along with his strategy.
		Bobetko thus appears to be robbing Racan of an opportunity to get around the extradition dilemma, and may also be trying the patience of tribunal chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who is looking to the general for signs that he is willing to compromise.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr2/bcr2_20021021_1_eng.txt (608 words)

	News in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The HSLS president reiterated that the Bobetko indictment was in opposition to the Croatian Constitution and Croatian stands on the events in the former Yugoslavia, as well as contrary to the documents of the United Nations, which founded the Hague-based war crimes tribunal.
		After visiting retired General Janko Bobetko Sunday the president of the Croatian Victimology Society, Professor Zvonimir ©eparovic told reporters that the Croatian parliament needs to instate a moratorium on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal and make amendments to the Constitution regarding cooperation with the ICTY.
		Also visiting general Bobetko was Vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Andrija Hebrang, who announced the founding of a committee which would promote the truth about Croatia’s Homeland War and would also coordinate all activities in the defence of generals Janko Bobetko, Ante Gotovina and Rahim Ademi.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2002/09/23/ENG.html (930 words)

	Novi List, Racan Told Bobetko: Do Not Worry, This Is Nothing, by Jagoda MARIC, September 22, 2002
		That is the description of the current situation in the country, after the issuing of the indictment against General Janko Bobetko, that we heard from almost every inhabitant of the village of Crnac near Sisak, where General Bobetko was born 83 years ago.
		In the meantime members of the headquarters for the defense of Janko Bobetko or neighbors who want to hear what is going on are almost daily visiting his house.
		The most recent visit of general Bobetko to his birth place was three weeks ago, and yesterday Vera Zivkovic, wife of Ante Zivkovic, invited General Bobetko over the phone to the celebration of Saint Mihovil, patron saint of the village of Crnac.
	www.ex-yupress.com /novi/novilist19.html (716 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: Milestone -- May. 12, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb.
		Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army.
		Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during a 1993 Croatian offensive to retake an area seized by the Serb rebels.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030512-449515,00.html (713 words)

	Doctors Say Former Army Chief Indicted By U.N. Too Sick To Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Former Croatian army chief Janko Bobetko, accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of war crimes against Croatian Serbs in 1993, is too sick to be extradited to The Hague, Bobetko's doctors said in a statement today.
		Many Croats, who view Bobetko as a hero of the 1991 Croatian war for independence from Yugoslavia, are opposed to his extradition.
		Meanwhile, the United Kingdom said yesterday it was blocking an association agreement between the EU and Croatia due to failure "to act" on the indictment against Bobetko.
	www.unwire.org /unwire/20021017/29683_story.asp (455 words)

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