Ex-General Charged in Deaths of Civilians
A former army general whose investigation for alleged war crimes spurred nationalist protests was formally charged in the 1991 killings of civilians in the central Croatian city of Gospic, the state prosecutor said.
Maj. Gen. Mirko Norac and four other former soldiers were indicted on charges that they ordered and took part in the killings of at least 24 civilians, prosecutor Radovan Ortinsky said. It is believed that all the victims were Serbs.
Norac, a local commander in Gospic at the time of the killings, and the other four are the first Croats to be charged with war crimes committed against Serbs during the 1991 war.
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