Décision controversée : On n'aurait pas dû confier à Seks un poste clé dans les négociations avec l'UE
La décision prise par la Premier ministre Jadranka Kosor de désigner Vladimir Šeks comme coordinateur de la mise en oeuvre du plan d'action pour la finalisation des négociations concernant le chapitre 23 (Pouvoir judiciaire et droits fondamentaux) en a surpris plus d'un.
Sa tâche consistant à coordonner les ministères, les institutions de l'Etat, le Parlement et les clubs de députés, rechercher des solutions pour satisfaire aux critères, mais aussi avertir le gouvernement sur les lacunes de certaines dispositions, lois et autres mesures, est jugée par certains comme un mauvais signal adressé à l'Union européenne.
Parmi ceux ayant fait part de leur désapprobation on trouve la responsable du Centre Dokumenta, Vesna Teršelić, qui a annoncé qu'elle allait protester contre cette décision. Elle estime que Vladimir Šeks est impliqué dans les crimes de guerre qui ont eu lieu à Osijek. Dans un entretien pour le site tportal elle a dit qu'elle estime que Vladimir Šeks en tant que supérieur hiérarchique de Branimir Glavaš aurait dû au moins répondre sur le plan politique des affaires "garaža" et "selotejp".
Source : nacional.hr, le 23 mars 2011.
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HINA Croatian news agency
23 March 2011
Lack of political will for war crimes trials, says NGO activist
ZAGREB, March 23 (Hina) -- Lack of political will to reinforce the autonomy, professionalism and efficiency of judicial bodies by specialising courts and prosecutors' offices prevents further progress in war crimes trials, Mladen Stojanovic of the Osijek-based Centre for Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights told reporters on Wednesday.
He was presenting a report on the monitoring of war crimes trials in 2010, compiled by the Centre, the Documenta centre for facing the past, and the Civic Human Rights Committee.
Last year saw intensified investigations, new indictments against members of both Serbian and Croatian military units, and more case referrals from county courts and prosecutors' office with insufficient capacities, said Stojanovic.
He said war crimes proceedings had been launched against 3,655 people in Croatia, including 95 members of the Croatian army. Trials are under way against 969 people, of whom 48 members of Croatian military units. By the end of 2010, 563 had been convicted, including 28 members of the Croatian army.
Stojanovic said legislation on the application of the Statute of the Hague war crimes tribunal and the prosecution of crimes against international war and humanitarian law should be amended to stipulate that depositions given to the tribunal's investigators could be used as evidence in national courts.
He said it was also necessary to develop and enforce a witness support strategy, and that the government should urgently adopt a decision whereby the state would not collect litigation costs from plaintiffs who did not win damages claims because of the death of a close person.
Documenta president Vesna Terselic said it was scandalous, intolerable and disgraceful that families of war crimes' victims were made to pay litigation costs.