Along with a conviction of Dokmanovic, the ICTY must decide whether an international conflict was taking place in Croatia. The prosecution team will attempt to prove that an international conflict was taking place in Croatia because a large part of the indictment is based on that fact. The verdict will be crucial for international law as it will set the basis for the new criteria on defining international conflicts. In support of all those that survived the Ovcara shed beatings and in memory of those that were executed under the command of Dokmanovic and company, Croatia and its media should pay much more attention to the Dokmanovic trial. The Croatian people are genuinely interested in the trial and seeing justice take place.
Hague experts are most disappointed with the co-operation they have been receiving.
They expected that their on-going constant research would bring them new information about other crimes. The Bosniacks have established their own office which continually supplies The Hague expert team with new evidence and information on cases they are investigating and others which have the potential to become the tribunal s cases. As for Croatia, its indifference and neglect may lead to its loosing a case that could easily be won. The process of exhuming bodies from a mass grave located at the Catholic cemetery in the Danubian village of Tovarnik commenced last week. The grave contains the bodies of at least 48 Croats who were killed in 1991.