Dario Kordic, a convicted war criminal who ethnically cleansed the Lasva Valley in central Bosnia and sowed death, took a walk for life (”Hod za zivot”) in Zagreb last week and called on Croatian officials not to allow abortions for pregnant women at risk of pregnancy with a baby with a tumor.
This could in short be called the paradox of a war criminal. On October 6th, 1997, Dario Kordic, along with nine other former members of the political and military bodies of the former Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna, voluntarily surrendered to the court in The Hague.
Kordic was indicted and convicted of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, and violations of the laws or customs of war. The crimes he was charged with were so large-scale and so widespread and carried out systematically that they sought to destroy and displace almost the entire Muslim civilian population of the Lasva Valley.
In April 1993, in a systematic attack on the village of Ahmici and other places around Vitez, the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) first started with shelling, then groups of soldiers went from house to house killing and wounding Muslim civilians, and setting houses, barns, and cattle on fire. After the attack, the HVO detained many civilians, who were forced to dig trenches on the front line. At least 103 Muslim civilians were killed in or around Ahmici. Of these, 33 were women and children. All 176 Muslim houses in Ahmici were destroyed, as well as two mosques.
The court sentenced Kordic to 25 years in prison for planning, inciting, and ordering the crimes that took place on April 16th, 1993 in Ahmici and the villages of Santici, Pirici, and Nadioci. The court found that Kordic did everything he could to carry out ethnic cleansing and persecution.
After his release from prison, Kordic was greeted as a hero in a large part of the Croatian political spectrum. He then graduated in theology and devoted himself to the faith. He is a regular participant in the “Walk for Life” event.
Kordic never publicly repented for the crimes for which he was convicted. But today he does not hesitate to present himself as a moral vertical. Now in Zagreb, he is participating in a rally in which he says he is defending life, the life of an unborn child that a pregnant woman wants to abort due to numerous complications and diseases of the baby. Now, Kordic is on the street in the fight for life, a life he took so ruthlessly 29 years ago, even for children and babies, Klix.ba writes.
E.Dz.
