Kacarevic interviewed two of the three accused, Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic, shortly after the massacre at Ovcara farm, eastern Croatia, in November 1991.
Retired JNA General Mile Mrksic, who commanded JNA troops during the attack on Vukovar in 1991, an his subordinate security officers Sljivancanin and Radic are on trial for the killing of at least 264 Croatian soldiers and civilians abducted from Vukovar's hospital and massacred at nearby Ovcara on 20 November 1991.
As a journalist of the Belgrade-based weekly Intervju, Kacarevic visited Vukovar in November 1991, after the town was seized by the JNA. He described his impressions of the ravaged town, with the dead lying along streets and in courtyards.
Kacarevic interviewed Sljivancanin and Radic on November 24, four days after the Ovcara slaughter.
In the interview, they confirmed having commanded the local Serb Territorial Unit who are charged as the immediate perpetrators of the crime. They said their troops killed the Ustasha every day in the battles for Vukovar. "They are shooting at us, we at them, so we will see what happens," Radic was quoted as saying.
The two said in the interview the JNA lost many soldiers, officers and volunteers in the attack on Vukovar, but that when the Ushasha surrendered soldiers were not allowed to retaliate but act chivalrously.
The witness said that Sljivancanin was very popular in the Serbian public at that time and that the JNA's entry into Vukovar was seen as the arrival of the cavalry in western movies.