WORLD INCREASINGLY RECOGNISES MISERABLE SITUATION OF TRIBUNAL SEPAROVIC 
 
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Victimology 
Society, Zvonimir Separovic, said on Saturday that the world 
increasingly recognised the "miserable situation" of the Hague 
tribunal, and called on the Croatian government to review its 
relations with the war crimes tribunal. 
 
   Separovic said even Patricia Wald, a former judge of the tribunal, 
had warned about the slowness and lack of professionalism of the 
court, adding that those who surrendered should be freed until the 
start of the trial. 
 
   He called on the Croatian parliament to open a discussion on 
cooperation with the Hague tribunal, to protect the human rights 
and dignity of, as he put it, Croatia's Homeland Defence War hero, 
General Ante Gotovina. 
 
   "In the light of new world analyses, the government should review 
Gotovina's indictment before Croatian courts, so he could return to 
his family and life in freedom," Separovic stressed. 
 
   He asked of the government to also cease any further irrational 
cooperation with The Hague, and to worry about its own national 
interests. 
 
  He also called on the Constitutional Court to cease the silence 
about requests filed before it to review the constitutionality of 
the law on cooperation with the international war crimes tribunal 
and to reach a verdict on the issue. 
 
 
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