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Reaction after UN war crimes court convicts two Croatian generals

(15 Apr 2011) SHOTLIST Pakostane 1. Mid shot man reading newspapers with headlines about General Ante Gotovina 2. Man smoking wearing T-shirt with message reading: "Gotovina hero" 3. Wide people watching live transmission of trial proceedings from The Hague 4. Various of elderly woman, muttering angrily, with picture of Gotovina on her shirt 5. Various of Croatian veterans, former deputies of Gotovina watching the transmission, while judges read the verdict 6. Various of TV screen showing transmission from The Hague, veteran Ante Maksan reacting angrily 7. View out of window showing Croatian flag 8. Close of Maksan 9. Close-up of veteran Marjan Kukin 10. Wide of Maksan and Kukin reacting to verdict 11. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ante Maksan, Croatian war veteran: "We have always been defending our homeland. We will still defend our country. We proudly defended our country, we were honourable soldiers. But now, it seems to me, after this verdict, that we will have to defend our homeland once more, and even harder then before." 12. Wide of Gotovina poster on quayside 13. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Marjan Kukin, Croatian war veteran: "They just convicted him because they need a conviction in order that this court even exists. Let's put the English and Americans in court. They killed millions of people, they conquered so many colonies. Who will put them in court? We were just defending our country." Zagreb 14. Various of crowds of protesters holding flags in Zagreb street 15. Various mid shots of protesters 16. Protesters holding large photo of Gotovina 17. Man reading newspapers 18. Various of protesters STORYLINE There was widespread anger in Croatia on Friday, as the news broke of the guilty verdict for two of its generals on war crimes charges by the international war crimes court in The Hague. Three generals - Ante Gotovina, Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak - were being tried on charges of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war committed by the Croatian forces during the Operation Storm military campaign between July and September 1995. Gotovina was convicted of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, persecution and inhuman acts, during and immediately after a lightning campaign called Operation Storm that seized back land along Croatia's eastern border taken over by rebel Serbs early in the Balkan wars. Dozens of Serbs were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes. Gotovina was sentenced to 24 years imprisonment. Mladen Markac, who held the position of Assistant Minister of Interior in charge of Special Police matters, were convicted of persecution, deportation, plunder, wanton destruction, two counts of murder, inhumane acts and cruel treatment and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. Ivan Cermak was acquitted of all charges. There were demonstrations in Gotovina's hometown, the small coastal town of Pakostane, and in the capital Zagreb, where people had gathered in the main square to watch the court proceedings on a huge outdoor screen, as their trial concluded at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands. The conviction of Gotovina was a blow to the Croatian view of its wartime generals as national heroes who reclaimed Croatian land from a more powerful Serb force during Croatia's war for independence from the former Yugoslavia. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...