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The highest levels of the Croatian government secretly worked to seize part of Bosnia while pretending friendship with the Bosnian government, according to documents prosecutors have asked to be admitted as evidence in the case against six officials of the Croatians living in Bosnia currently standing trial in The Hague.
The documents, transcripts of the then Croatian President F.Tudjman’s conversations, show Croatian officials believed the West supported it in its undercover bid "to prevent a Muslim state being created in Europe".
Croatian war criminals Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic were senior political and paramilitary leaders of the self-proclaimed Croatian fascist creature in Bosnia known as "Herceg Bosna".
They face 26 charges of war crimes for the expulsion and murder of the Bosnian civilians during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia in the early 1990's.
They are also accused of being part of a joint criminal enterprise to politically and militarily subjugate Bosnians and other non-Croatians from some parts of Bosnia and to join that territory of Bosnia to a “Greater Croatia”.
Involved in this criminal enterprise were the Croatian President F.Tudjman, former Croatian Defence Minister G.Susak and M.Boban, president of the fascist Croatian creature in Bosnia "the HB". All three Croatian war criminals are now deceased.
On October 29, the prosecutors asked the judges to admit into evidence 87 transcripts of the Croatian President Tudjman’s meetings with various people that took place at the time relevant to the indictment.
Most of these transcripts have already been admitted in part or in full as evidence in other trials held at the Hague tribunal.
Several of the transcripts record how Tudjman ordered regular Croatian troops to be secretly sent to Bosnia to set up checkpoints and to support the Croatians living there.
“Gentlemen, we’ve succeeded, we’ve succeeded in getting not just Herceg Bosna, which is what we had. We’ve (now) got,we can say this among ourselves,half of Bosnia, if we’re good at governing it, if we govern cleverly,” said the Croatian President F.Tudjman at a meeting with representatives of the fascist Croatian creature in Bosnia "the HB",on November 24, 1995.
Tudjman also regularly referred to Croatia as being on the front line against the expansion of Islam, and even expressed sympathy for the genocidal Serbian aggressor because Serbians are Christians.
“Europe and the world are a bit afraid of… the creation of an Islamic (state) in Europe. So that they would even be inclined for a division (of Bosnia) to be carried out between Croatia and Serbia in order to avoid having that separate Muslim state, you know,” said F.Tudjman on January 8, 1992.
The judges are expected to rule soon on whether all these transcripts will be admitted into evidence against Croatian war criminals Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic.

Dinko Sakic was only 22 years old when, in 1944, he was appointed commander of Jasenovac, the most notorious of the wartime concentration camps established by Croatia�s pro-Nazi ruling party, the Ustashe. Although thousands were killed under Sakic he appeared destined to evade justice once he escaped along with many other war criminals to Catholic Argentina after the war. There he lived in comparative obscurity for over 50 years, until he appeared in a television interview in which he admitted the role he had played at Jasenovac.
Dinko Sakic became a committed member of the nationalist organisation Ustasha from a very young age. Following the German-led invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the new Nazi Croatia (NDH), established under Third Reich and Italian tutelage, set up detention facilities for Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croats. The Ustasha regime of Ante Pavelic, was determined to eliminate minority groups and political opponents in the case of the Serbs, by expulsions, killings and forcible conversions to Roman Catholicism.
Sakic joined the concentration camp administration in 1941. A year later he was appointed as an assistant commandant of Jasenovac, south-east of Zagreb, the biggest of the 20-odd camps set up by the Ustasha regime.�
Sakic led a relatively quiet life, running a textile factory and engaging in Ustasha emigre politics. He was largely forgotten when he unintentionally catapulted himself into the limelight in an Argentinian television interview, shown in April 1998, by admitting that he had been a commandant at Jasenovac.
The Sakic case posed a dilemma for Tudjman who had courted the Croatian emigre community. In his historical writings in the 1980s he had already sought to play down the number of victims at Jasenovac; and as president in the mid-1990s, he had provoked outrage by proposing that the Ustasha victims of post-war retribution by the Communists should be buried alongside those whom the Ustashe had killed at Jasenovac, as a gesture of national reconciliation.
On the other hand, with Croatia�s war and the intense phase of nationalism associated with it now over, Tudjman was eager to demonstrate the country�s pro-Western, democratic credentials in the hope of securing eventual accession to the EU and better relations with the US.