The court has brought an acquittal for Zejnel Delalic, while Esad Landzo Zenga was sentenced to 15 years, Hazim Delic to 20 and Zdravko Mucic Pavo just to 7 years in prison.

The key "statement" in the verdict was the one of the Court's Council, which said that in the region of the former Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) during 1992, it was an armed conflict of the international character that had taken place there, with the former Yugoslav National Army (JNA), i.e. the FR Yugoslavia as the aggressor, although, the verdict said, "the authorities of the FR Yugoslavia had tried in May that year to present themselves as if they were no longer involved in the conflict" (JNA had withdrawn from Bosnia on May 19, 1992).

"According to the explanation of the verdict, the FR Yugoslavia was accused for aggression against Bosnia, although JNA had withdrawn from the region of the Konjic municipality as early as May 5, 1992, and since the Celebici concentration camp was opened on May 21, JNA could not have in any case been involved in clashes in that region", said Ignjatovic.

Witnesses who went to give their testimonies before the Tribunal also pointed to such an accusation against FR Yugoslavia, which shows that a scenario according to which FR Yugoslavia and the Serbs in general are be proclaimed the main culprits for conflicts in the region of the former Yugoslavia, was set up from the beginning.

The Serbian witnesses, reminds Ignjatovic, had not have any opportunity to change such a scenario, since the Tribunal's investigators to whom they had given their testimonies never gave them the copies of those statements here in FR Yugoslavia, even though they promised to do so at the beginning of the hearings. Investigators, therefore, wrote down just what suited them, i.e. what "fitted in" the pre-made general plan, according to which the Serbs were the aggressors and the main culprits for conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

Ignjatovic also points out that the witnesses complained about the representatives of the Hague prosecution office as asking them at the very hearings to speak only about what had happen in the Celebici concentration camp, not allowing them to "extend the indictment" and include in their testimonies much more responsible people from the Muslim leadership.

For a long time, the Tribunal has claimed that the Serbs did not figure as victims, since FR Yugoslavia did not cooperate with that court. In the case of Celebici, the Committee has given to the Tribunal all the possible ways of cooperation, such as finding the witnesses and escorting them into the Tribunal Belgrade office for its investigators to hear them, pointing to other witnesses and offering any other help.

Although the Tribunal's representatives had always stressed in the talks their investigation would be directed toward the 'big shots', the command responsibility of the Muslim authorities in the Celebici case was narrowed to the minimum, while Croatia and its involvement in the conflicts in the Konjic municipality was never mentioned", concluded Ignjatovic.

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