Reproduction and onward transmission of this data is expressly in breach of copyright law. Ivo Sanader, leader of the HDZ Party of late nationalist strongman Franjo Tudjman, led a rally of 100,000 people in support of a former general in the southern Adriatic city of Split on Sunday. The 33 year-old former general Mirko Norac is suspected of war crimes against Serbs in Croatia in the early 90s and has gone into hiding. Prime Minister Ivica Racan seemed unnerved by the rally as he boarded a flight in Zagreb at the start of a three-day visit to Poland.
Nationalists are angry at what they call the government's attempts to criminalise war heroes.