First American ambassador to Croatia says verdicts do not bring into question legitimacy of Operation Storm

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• Hilda M.Foley wrote on 22. 04. 2011 from California, USA

  Mr.Galbraith's opinion that sending Croatian generals to the ICTY shows a modern, democratic state is nonsense. big democracies like the US and England do not send their generals on trial - and especially not as in the case of Croatia, for defending and liberating its own country.

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• Damir wrote on 20. 04. 2011 from Sydney

  What kind of fool compares an armies liberation of it's sovereign territory with the civil rights struggle in the "deep south" Lets make a more appropriate comparison shall we. The indictment was for "command responsibility" for not preventing the killing of approx 150 victims in Gotovina's Sector South. The indictment never accuses him of ordering the killings. lol @ Milena. I love Serb mythology. You do realise that this operation was one of the most well reported and televised in militairy history. The footage of the civilian convoy and the town of Knin is there for everyone to see. Far less than 1% of buildings were damaged during the Croatian offensive. Compare this to Vukovar where almost 100% of the buildings were damaged. Not only did the Croat army not engage Serb civilians, both Sipetic and Gotovina brokered agreeements with the Serb corps to allow them to evacuate upon surrendering their weapons. The Knin hospital was untouched. Vukovar hospitals patients were executed. Food for thought.

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  • Bill wrote on 21. 04. 2011 from Oregon

    It was not a comment on the civil rights movement nor on the war. It was a comment on the cynical and self-serving statement of Galbraith, bought and paid for by the Croatian government. He lives in Dubrovnik, for pete's sake. He lacks credibility at the very least. Maybe you had to have lived through the civil rights era to appreciate the story. And I was only in Eastern Slavonia for 3 1/2 years, so I am not the best judge of what happened. But I do know Galbraith is a tool.

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  • Bill wrote on 21. 04. 2011 from Oregon

    The comment was not about the civil rights era or the Deep South per se, nor was it about the war in general. It was an allegorical reference to Galbraith's self-serving and cynical revisionist version of history. What Galbraith said was like what the allegorical sheriff said about suicide. I am not an expert on the war, as I only spent 3 1/2 years in Vukovar. But I do recognize a lying politician when I see one.

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• Milena wrote on 19. 04. 2011 from Canada

  Sais who? Did he ever talked to any of 250 000 refugies who were bombed all the way from Krajina via Bosnia to Serbian border. He knows very well that serbian homes are destroyed. As American and French ex-generals were main planners of this military action, they need to be at the same tribunal and should share same punishement. Further on, when this gentlemen talks about Croatian governement responsibility to defend its teritory within its borders, why Serbia was not allowed the same in case of Kosovo? Why Albanian exodus from Kosovo is ethnic clensing but Serbian exodus from Croatia is not?

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• Bill wrote on 19. 04. 2011 from Oregon

  This reminds me of the old story in the Deep South when racism was so rampant in the '60s. The redneck sheriff recovers a black man's body from a swamp. The body has 20 bullet holes, 12 stab wounds, and is wrapped in heavy logging chain. The sheriff pronounces, "Darndest case of suicide that I ever did see."

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