Bosnian Croat indictee responsible for Sarajevo market shelling

Bosnian Croat indictee responsible for Sarajevo market shelling-Croatian weekly
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 14, 2005

The Zagreb-based weekly Globus has reported that it possesses secret reports by the Croatian Interior Ministry and the Counter-Intelligence Agency from 2003 stating that Hague indictee Ivica Rajic, as commander of the Kiseljak zone of operation, was responsible for the shelling of the Sarajevo market Markale.

"The sources point to Rajic's unclear responsibility for the shelling of the Sarajevo market Markale," says the secret report compiled on 12 pages by the former acting director of the Counter-Intelligence Agency, Franjo Turek, on 15 April 2003 - ten days after Rajic's arrest.

Globus reported that more than 70 people suffered in the Markale shelling and that Turek said in the secret report that Rajic was responsible for the shelling, and not the Serbs as it has been believed so far.

Globus has possesses key reports from the Croatian Interior Ministry and the Counter-Intelligence Agency from 2003 about a support network which was hiding Ivica Rajic for eight years and which the Croatian government did not forward to Hague chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1145 gmt 13 Jan 05