In the historic first case transferred to Croatian courts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), General Mirko Norac was convicted and General Rahim Ademi acquitted of war crimes on theories of command responsibility.
The historic conviction is a major step forward for Croatia, whose government long resisted responsibility for war crimes committed by ethnic Croats during the conflict and whose EU accession has been conditioned on successful prosecutions of Croatian war criminals. The court has been less active than its Bosnian counterpart, but more successful prosecutions should help facilitate international confidence in the Croatian government and, eventually, EU accession.
