[5] In 1993, during Operation Medak pocket against Serb Krajina strongholds that controlled the town of Gospić, the Croatian soldiers were accused of committing crimes against humanity and violating the laws or customs of war, which Bobetko denied.

[2] Bobetko had the status of a fully disabled person, caused both by his leg injury he sustained during World War II, and later by an onset of cardiac decompensation in 1994.

[6] On 15 July 1995, shortly before Operation Storm, President Franjo Tuđman formally replaced Bobetko as the Chief of General Staff with Zvonimir Červenko.

"[10] The crisis stretched out as popular opinion agreed with Bobetko, and the anti-HDZ coalition government led by Social Democrat Prime Minister Ivica Račan would not assert an unambiguous position over his extradition.

[10] The government adopted a strategy of delaying any further move until Bobetko's health declined to the point where, in early 2003, the tribunal had deemed him unfit to stand trial.

[10] Some veteran groups also went further by guarding the general's home, threatening violence if Račan's government attempted to have Bobetko forcibly arrested and extradited to the Hague.

In 2002, the United Kingdom halted its ratification process for the Stabilisation and Association Agreement of Croatia with the European Union due to the Croatian government's handling of the Bobetko case.

[2] In May 2013, the ICTY, in a first-instance verdict against Jadranko Prlić, found that Bobetko, Tuđman and Gojko Šušak took part in the joint criminal enterprise (JCE) against the non-Croat population of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.