ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Aug 16 (Hina) - The trial of three former Yugoslavarmy officers charged for their role in a massacre at the Ovcara farmoutside the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in the early 1990s isscheduled to start on 4
October, the Hague-based InternationalCriminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced onTuesday.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Aug 16 (Hina) - The trial of three former
Yugoslav army officers charged for their role in a massacre at the Ovcara farm
outside the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in the early 1990s is scheduled to
start on 4 October, the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced on Tuesday. General Mile Mrksic,
former commander of the Yugoslav People's Army 1st Guards Brigade, and his
subordinate officers Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic were indicted in
November 1995 for the massacre of 264 persons from the Vukovar hospital on
20/21 November 1991.
Mrksic surrendered to the ICTY in May 2002, while Sljivancanin and
Radic were arrested in Serbia in 2003.
The tribunal resumed work this week following a three-week summer
recess. The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is set to
resume on Wednesday.