Croatian minister resigns after scandal
Ivica Kirin expressed his “regrets and apology” for the incident in a letter to prime minister Ivo Sanader after photos were published in Croatian newspapers showing him with retired general Mladen Markac, facing trial over the 1995 killings of Serb rebels.
Markac, 52, was arrested at his home in Zagreb and is in custody. The UN war crimes tribunal ordered his return to the Netherlands for breaching conditions of his 2004 release while he awaited trial.
