VUKOVAR: INDICTMENT ISSUED AGAINST FORMER JNA OFFICERS

VUKOVAR, Feb 21 (Hina) - The Vukovar County Prosecution on Friday issued an indictment against ten representatives of the civil authorities of Croatian Serb rebels and high-ranking officers of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) for crimes committed against humanity and international law during the Serb aggression and occupation of Vukovar. #L# The Croatian public will be informed about the details of the indictment at a news conference called for Monday by Vukovar-Srijem County prosecutor Bozidar Piljic. Piljic told Hina that the list of indictees, charged with war crimes against civilians, POWs and the wounded and sick, and with the destruction of cultural and historical monuments, included JNA officers Veljko Kadijevic, Blagoje Adzic, Zvonko Jurjevic, Bozidar Stevanovic, Zivota Panic, Mile Mrksic, Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic, as well as Vojislav Seselj and Goran Hadzic. The 80-page indictment describes tragic events from the beginning of the Serb aggression on the eastern Croatian town until Croatian civilians, soldiers and other non-Serbs were taken to Serb concentration camps. (hina) lml