Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Catholic bishops have said they believe silence is “the most appropriate expression of feelings” after a jailed Croatian general, Slobodan Praljak, publicly committed suicide, writes Jonathan Luxmoore. Praljak took cyanide in court after his appeal against a war crimes sentence was rejected by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. The bishops, warned, however, that members of their country’s Croatian minority remained “victims of injustice”.
“We oppose and condemn every crime and we are most pained by crimes perpetrated by those washed in the baptismal water of the Catholic Church,” they said in a statement signed by Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo. “Nevertheless, we must not close our eyes before the obvious fact that, since the peace agreements [ending the 1992-5 Bosnian war] members of the domiciled Croatian nation continue to be sent messages that Bosnia-Herzegovina isn’t their homeland.”
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