.- The Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to 24 years in prison for former general Ante Gotovina in relation to war crimes committed in 1995 during the so-called 'Operation Storm' The military offensive that ended the war in Croatia.
Gotovina, who had pleaded not guilty and was arrested in Tenerife on December 8, 2005, has been convicted of orchestrating the killing of dozens of people and to bomb cities and villages during the offensive in the Krajina region in the that the Serbs had proclaimed an independent state recognized internationally.
The ruling of the High Court has dropped like a bucket of cold water to the interests of the Croatian Government, which said today it is considering the possibility to challenge or to start a legal process to try to defend the rights of the general. 
Gotovina, who had pleaded not guilty and was arrested in Tenerife on December 8, 2005, has been convicted of orchestrating the killing of dozens of people and to bomb cities and villages during the offensive in the Krajina region in the that the Serbs had proclaimed an independent state recognized internationally.
The ruling of the High Court has dropped like a bucket of cold water to the interests of the Croatian Government, which said today it is considering the possibility to challenge or to start a legal process to try to defend the rights of the general.
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