His Excellency Kofi Annan
Secretary General of the UN
United Nations Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10017

Excellency:

We are taking the liberty to send this very important report to you
regarding the close working association of the ICTY Chief Prosecutor
Madame Del Ponte with Savo Strbac, head of the "Veritas" organization.
Mr. Strbac was the "Government Secretary" of the Serb-occupied so-called
"Republika Srpska Krajina" an illegal para-state in Croatia that
ethnically cleansed the whole Croatian population while looting and
burning their homes and committing terrible atrocities. To this day Mr.
Strbac still advocates a "Greater Serbia" wherever Serbs live, no matter
that, as in Croatia, such land was never part of Serbia.
We cannot understand that Madame Del Ponte could actually give any
credence to such a person and much less even to cooperate with him. Why
was Mr. Strbac and his role in ethnic cleansing and killing never
investigated? We believe that it is of the utmost importance that this
cooperation with Mr. Strbac and his Veritas organization at the ICTY
Prosecutor's office and he himself are investigated.

Madame Del Ponte is now busy indicting more Croatian generals, presumably
to even out the number with the Serb indictees. Notwithstanding that
Croatia never attacked one inch of Serbian soil, notwithstanding that up
to now 139 mass graves of Croatian victims massacred by Serbs have been
discovered in Croatia and that during the UNPROFOR mandate in Serb
occupied Croatia Serbs killed far more Croatians than the combined number
of alleged Serb victims for which the Croatian generals now stand
accused.

Very truly yours,


Hilda M. Foley
National Federation of Croatian Americans
13272 Orange Knoll
Santa Ana, Ca. 92705