BELGRADE COURT EXTENDS DETENTION OF OVCARA MASSACRE SUSPECTS

BELGRADE, Sept 5 (Hina) - The Serbian Supreme Court has ruled that four men, suspected of the 1991 massacre of more than 260 Croat prisoners of war outside the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar, should remain in custody for three more months, the Belgrade-based "Danas" daily of Saturday has reported. #L# The four suspects were arrested in a police operation carried out after the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic on March 12 this year. A decision on two other suspects, who were also arrested in the operation, will be made later. The Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has charged Yugoslav People's Army officers Veselin Sljivancanin, Mile Mrksic and Miroslav Radic with command responsibility in the Vukovar massacre. They are in The Hague awaiting trial. The six men arrested in Serbia are suspected of having carried out the war crime against patients and civilians abducted from the Vukovar hospital and executed at the Ovcara farm outside the town. (hina) rml