"The Serbian state prosecutor for war crimes said on Tuesday the prosecution had launched pre-trial proceedings for crimes committed by Serb forces in the eastern Croatian village of Lovas in 1991, when more than 50 civilians were killed, Radio Free Europe reported.
Prosecutor Vladimir Vukicevic told the radio station the prosecution was cooperating with the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office and the Vukovar County Court and trying to collect relevant information and discover the perpetrators in cooperation with military security services.
Ljuban Devetak and another 17 persons, of whom only one is in custody, are being tried before the Vukovar County Court for the Lovas war crime.
A commemoration was held in Lovas today to mark the 14th anniversary of the death of 21 villagers and the wounding of another 14 whom Serb soldiers forced into a mine field."