Participants who gathered for a rally in Zagreb's main square on Friday booed the announcement of the Hague tribunal's judgement to sentence General Ante Gotovina to 24 years and General Mladen Markac to 18 and applauded the tribunal's decision to acquit General Ivan Cermak.

During the rally, organised to publicly watch the judgment hearing for the three Croatian generals before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, some of parts of the live broadcast were switched off with an explanation that the participants in the rally did not want to listen to the translation in the Serbian language.

After the rendering of the judgement, participants carried a banner reading "Croatian traitors: Mesic, Sanader, Pusic, Josipovic, Seks, Bajic and Racan".

Also a poster of Gotovina was set up.

The rally, organised by the association called "Stop the Prosecution of Croatian War Veterans", started with the Croatian national anthem, in the morning. Several thousand people gathered in the square.