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SARAJEVO, June 12 (FENA) - Dario Kordic’s disgraceful statement that he does not regret his actions during the 1992-95 war demonstrates a lamentable lack of shame and empathy with all those who were killed by the forces he led during those years, the EU Delegation to BiH published on its Twitter profile on Monday, following the convicted war criminal’s statements from a leaked video.
The EU Delegation underlines that the war crimes against innocent civilians, for which Kordić was in prison, have been thoroughly documented and proven in court. These are established facts, they emphasized.
Instead of thinking about the lives that his actions destroyed and the consequences for the families of his victims, he decided to make outrageous comments that glorify his actions and prolong the trauma of all those affected by the war.
The EU Delegation concluded by saying that “such comments keep Bosnia and Herzegovina trapped by the legacy of its past and should be thoroughly condemned by all those with a commitment to truth, justice and genuine reconciliation.”
The International Court for War Crimes in The Hague sentenced Kordić, a wartime commander of the Croat Defence Council (HVO) and vice president of Herzeg-Bosnia, to 25 years in prison for war crimes committed against the Bosniak population in Lasvanska Dolina during the war in central Bosnia in 1993 and 1994.
Among the crimes for which Kordic was convicted was the massacre in Ahmići, where the HVO members killed 116 Bosniak civilians on April 16, 1993, including 32 women and 11 children. Kordić was released in 2014, after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
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