Huge Rally Opposes War Crimes Inquiry
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Waving Croatian flags and chanting anti-government slogans, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Split to protest the investigation of a former general on suspicion of war crimes.
The state HINA news agency and journalists at the scene estimated the crowd at close to 100,000. The rally was the latest signpost in the building confrontation between the 1-year-old pro-democracy government and its predecessor--the nationalist party that ruled Croatia for nearly a decade under late President Franjo Tudjman.
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