Cicak’s lies about Levar
(on croatian: 45 lines, Friday, 01.07.2005)
With crimes is also acquainted Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, claims Milan Levar in interview for Vecernji list. Namely, Cicak knew for combusting of bodies in Sisak’s Ironmonger, for combusting on dumpsite in Zadar, for rides with tankcontainers of Ina, but he has never said that. Not only because he is Tihomir Oreskovic’s best man, but also because he said that every year President Tudjman signed operations of Cicak and HHO for next year.
So, those were concessions to cover up Gospic, Levar concluded.Andrea Latinovic & Marija Pulic amd Vjesnik, 11th April 2000
On these claims of Milan Levar, Ivan Zvonimir Cicak reacted in column which was published for him by Nacional
Already the next day of Oluja I published the article in which I warned that result of it shouldn’t be ethnic cleansing.
Several days later, after Gospic’s crime, I have published the article under title Where are Gospic’s Serbs disappearing, and further informations about Gospic I was delivering personally to ICTY’s investigators.>
Training field of democracy
written by Ivan Zvonimir Cicak
It is very interesting that exactly on Monday, 10th April, in the publication of action Kameleon, in Vecernji list appeared text about Gospic, where in the main role was Mr Levar. There was a little coincidence that the same thesis about me, which he gave in Vecernji, brought out last Friday by Vjeko Magas*, as if they arranged it or as if somebody synchronized their statements.
Levar, and also Magas, call me by name that I knew for Gospic’s crime, but I didn’t do anything, bringing that in connection with best man’s relationships with Tihomir Oreskovic. I would like to remind Levar that I am the first man in Croatia, that is in Slobodna Dalmacija, several days after Gospic’s crime, have published the text under title Where are Gospic’s Serbs disappearing.
In that time Levar was together with Oreskovic and those whom he is accusing today for war crimes.
Money for testifying
Concerning further informations about Gospic, I personally gave them, like did other activists of HHO (Croatian Helsinki Committee), to ICTY’s investigators, but about that, of course, we weren’t informing Levar. He personally knows that I talked with investigators when they were in Zagreb.
But I couldn’t make possible to Levar and some of his friends, to get money for their testifying, and what they were asking for. Namely, if anybody, in any way, indemnify any of witnesses, he would stop to be a relevant witness in ICTY.
Sisak’s ironmonger
Concerning Gospic itself and Levar’s role, we have to ask ourselves how on Saturday in Gospic came ICTY’s investigators, what was published in newspapers from Tuesday, and that Mr Levar on Monday, through publication of action Kameleon, Vecernji, attracted medias’ attention on Gospic.
With Mrs Carla Del Ponte, and other representative of Tribunal, I talked about danger which could threat to any investigation, if in any way is made media’s pomp around some actions. First of all, Croatia is still wounded from crimes which was done to Croats and by instrumentalisation is possible to move grumblers to organise protests and try to block investigations of Haag’s tribunal. Such yoghurt revolutions we have seen before during first arrival of Carla Del Ponte, or during pronouncement of sentence to Blaskic.
Levar called me by name in Vecernji, claiming that I knew for combusting of bodies in Sisak’s ironmonger, for combusting on dumpsite in Zadar, for rides of tankcontainers of Ina, but that I have never said that to anyone. How can he know to whom I have told and what we did connected to that matter.
He and Magas are saying the same things. Concerning Sisak’s ironmonger, there is a story that Croatian governments after action Bljesak there were combusting bodies of Serbs massacred in actions of Croatian aviations, that was in sacks, by special convoy, transported to Sisak and combusted. Unfortunatelly, that information was not possible to be confirmed, and we are not telling baby- stories.
Public is familiar that in HHO was done an investigation, much more expansive than this detail, about happenings on area of Sisak since 1991. till today.
Relevant evidences
Concerning supposed combusting of bodies on Zadar’s dumpsite, that information is not accurate, our activists were on the field and tried to carry out detailed investigation about that, there is also documents about that. Also there is documentation, special reports, about some unusual events on Zadar’s graveyard.
All that is very neatlly photodocumented, and that documents, in presence of colleague Prodanovic, I gave where I supposed to give.So, Mr Levar shouldn’t put himself in judge’s place, but also not as a public squealer, who would denunciate work of HHO and me personally. And to information that Tudjman every year signed operations of HHO and me personally, I don’t want to comment, because it is not only nonsense, but more than that.
But it is obvious that both Mr Levar and Magas have some relevant evidences and facts about mass crimes.
Levar goes so far that he directly accuses Norac for serious war crimes, murders of Serb civilians and mining of houses.
Levar nor Magas, after democratic elections, with their informations, didn’t go where citizens of this country should and had to go, and that is Ministry of police or at least State prosecutor’s office. So, in this way I ask from Minister Lucin and state attorney Zivkovic to start actions for collecting facts connected with public statements of Magas and Levar, and in accordance with informations taken from them, start adequate measures.
Nacional, 12th April 2000
* Vjeko Magas, longtime coworker of Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, at first in HSS (Croatian Peasant Party), and than in HHO. Fired from HHO under pressure of Ivan Zvonimir Cicak. Leads a work process with HHO. In that process lawyer of HHO is Veljko Miljevic, who is at the same time a member of chairmanship of that organisation. (p.s. Z.P.)
