The accused are Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin, who are charged with individual and command responsibility and crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war committed through the massacre of 264 Croatian soldiers and civilians at the Ovcara farm.
Dr. Bosanac, who entered the courtroom in a wheelchair due to an ankle injury, testified about the JNA's random air and cannon attacks on Vukovar and its hospital, which she said lasted from 15 August to 18 November 1991 and "practically destroyed the entire city". She also spoke about the dramatic situation in the hospital, whose basement was packed with hundreds of wounded people, hospital patients and civilians who sought shelter there days before the city fell into the Serbs' hands.
Asked whether the hospital was directly shelled and from which positions, Bosanac said that between 15 August and 18 November, 80-90 aerial bombs, shells and other projectiles fell on the hospital daily, despite the fact that visible Red Cross signs were displayed on its roof.
She said that the hospital was shelled from the JNA positions south of Vukovar and by tanks entrenched on the Serbian bank of the Danube River, and that it was also attacked from air.
At the beginning of the testimony, prosecutor Marks Moore played a video recording of 20 November 1991, showing the hospital's ground floor and basement packed with civilians, who sought shelter there hoping that they would be evacuated under the supervision of international observers. The recording also shows basement rooms with wounded people and hospital patients lying in beds and on the floor.
The witness commented on the recording, citing approximate data on the number of wounded people, hospital patients, civilians and non-civilians who were in the hospital in the critical days before the fall of the town. She stressed that medical documentation was taken from the hospital after the occupation of the town and asked the tribunal to request that it be returned, claiming that the documents were at Belgrade's School of Military Medicine.
"There were around 450 patients and wounded people in the hospital, as well as around 300 members of hospital staff and members of their families. Around 500 people came to the hospital awaiting evacuation," Bosanac said, adding that in mid-November 1991, 50 percent of the wounded people in the hospital were civilians and the other 50 percent soldiers and police officers.
Dr. Bosanac will testify on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In his opening statement on October 11, prosecutor Moore said he would introduce some 70 witnesses and complete the presentation of evidence by the end of February 2006.