Gotovina emerged from hiding last week, offering to surrender if the tribunal withdraws the indictment. “After they hear my statement,” he told an interviewer, “if they continue to hold the indictment against me, I will voluntarily go to The Hague. I truly have nothing to hide.”
If Gotovina is freed, the tribunal will have to face down the fact that it issued an eight-count indictment based on untruths. The most bizarre charge, the deportation of Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia, flew in the face of media reports that the Serb exodus was ordered by Serb leaders. One of the most authoritative accounts was by Florence Hartmann–a correspondent for Le Monde at the time, and now tribunal spokeswoman. “Our only purpose is to establish truth,” she says.
