On July 31, 1995, a meeting of Croatia’s top military and political leadership was held on the island of
Brijuni.
[33] Tudjman apparently spoke about "
blows that will make the Serbs all but disappear, in other words, those we don’t reach immediately, must capitulate in the next few days."
[34]
The transcript of the meeting later formed the basis of the
United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's allegation of a joint criminal enterprise found in the indictment against generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac.
[18] The prosecution of the ICTY alleged that the content of the meeting was evidence of existence of a joint criminal enterprise to forcibly remove the Serb population from Croatia and prevent their return.
[34] According to the prosecution, the Brijuni Transcripts demonstrated a shared intent to forcibly remove Serbs from the area through means such as shelling, destruction, looting, intimidation, and violence, while the defense maintains that Tudjman specifically spoke about rebel Serb military units when he referred to Serbs needing to "all but disappear"
[35]
The Croatian Chief State Prosecutor's Office has verified the authenticity of the recording of the Brijuni meeting.
[36][37] Tudjman's words indicate his intent to move the civilian population out of the area while issuing false human rights guarantees.
It is important that these [Serb] civilians start moving and then the army will follow them, and when the columns start moving, they will have a psychological effect on each other.[...] That means we provide them with an exit, while on the other hand we pretend to guarantee civilian human rights and the like...
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