Vojinovic said that he had informed all commanders in his brigade of the crimes the morning after they had been committed, but that he had not notified the military judiciary because he believed that this should have been done by his superiors.
"I think the security officer in my brigade had the duty to inform someone in the Command," the witness said. He was not sure if he had informed his superior, Mile Mrksic, who was commander of the JNA Guards Brigade at the time.
In his testimony on Wednesday, Vojinovic said that Mrksic had dismissed with a wave of the hand the news of a chaotic situation at Ovcara after wounded people had been brought there from the Vukovar hospital, and that Mrksic had said that he did not want to listen to it because he had more important business to attend to.
Asked by one of the defence lawyers how was it possible that he had done nothing after 200 dead bodies had been found in his area of responsibility, Vojinovic shrugged and said that his unit had not taken part in the executions.
The court also heard another witness, Mile Bakic, who had joined the Serb Territorial Defence in Vukovar and transported food from Negoslavci to Vukovar in a van.
Bakic could not remember most of the things he had said during the investigation, when he described in detail the situation in Ovcara, which he visited twice on the day in question.
The trial is due to continue on Friday with the testimony of new prosecution witnesses.