Blaskic's trial is not even in sight. The United States should put more pressure on the tribunal to speed up the trials and help to provide the Tribunal with the means to do its job. Apparently, many more individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina have been secretly indicted. The United States must not use secret indictments against Bosnian Croats anymore, because the indicted Croats have voluntarily turned themselves in and it can be expected that other possible indictees will do the same. Not only do secret indictments risk the lives of the indictees and NATO troops, they are also causing panic and even social and political instability in central Bosnia, which in turn is causing people to leave the area and the country.
Secret indictments are, therefore, undermining the Dayton Accords.
The United States must put more pressure on Serbia to turn over the Serb indictees. The lack of such pressure gives an appearance that the Serbs are able to get away with anything. Once more, we support the Tribunal in its quest for justice and in punishing the guilty, but we also expect it to be genuinely impartial, to provide speedy trials, and ultimately to be a visible witness to truth and justice so that the world may be spared from future evils such as we have witnessed in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the recent past. Ante Cuvalo, Ph. The Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Msgr.