ANOTHER REPORTER TESTIFIES AT MILOSEVIC TRIAL

THE HAGUE, Oct 16 (Hina) - The prosecution in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal on Wednesday called to the witness stand another Belgrade reporter who said that he had been told by a Serb volunteer in Vukovar about the massacre of 200 Croats at Ovcara outside the town in November 1991. # "He talked about how on the previous night they executed Croats from the Vukovar hospital from 5 pm to 1 am... he said that they were whining, crying and begging not to be killed as they had not killed anybody," journalist Jovan Dulovic quoted an unnamed perpetrator of the crime, member of Vojislav Seselj's volunteer units, who spoke to him a day after the massacre, at a Vukovar building which was the joint command of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), Territorial Defence (TO), and volunteers. Dulovic said this story had been confirmed to him eye-to-eye by a woman called Dragica who had also participated in the massacre. He said the woman had told him that JNA commander Veselin Sljivancanin had left them a message "not to kill them all" so that he could "test his weapon". Sljivancanin had a modified machine gun, Dulovic explained. The journalist testified that a day after the massacre he had seen a pile of camouflage uniforms with blood-stained trousers in front of the command building. According to what he was told at the time by TO commander Vojin Vuckovic and JNA captain Miroslav Radic, the Ovcara massacre had been committed by TO members and Seselj's volunteer units. Dulovic also said that several days before the fall of Vukovar he had seen Vojislav Seselj at the command building saying that "no Ustasha must leave Vukovar alive". Sljivancanin and Radic were at the building all the time, the witness said. Dulovic and other reporters witnessed the abduction of Croats from the Vukovar hospital on November 20 and their being forced into trucks as well as Sljivancanin's refusal to grant the International Committee of the Red Cross access to the hospital. A total of 261 Croats were abducted from the hospital, and 200 of them were killed and buried in a mass grave at the Ovcara farm outside the town. Apart from Milosevic, the Hague prosecution also indicted Sljivancanin, Radic and Mile Mrksic for the crime. The witness also described the building up of JNA, TO and volunteer units from Serbia around Vukovar before the attack on the town, as well as the violent behaviour of paramilitary units which he described as "drunken, disorganised, arrogant and primitive", and who he said had come to the town to plunder. He said the military activities of Vukovar Croats were "absolutely of defence character". The witness also described how in the summer of 1991 he had seen a guard force around 100 Croats imprisoned in a garage in Borovo Selo to sing Serb nationalist songs by banging on the garage door. When he banged once, trembling voices inside the garage would start singing one song, and when he banged twice, they would start singing another song, Dulovic said. "It was a sickening situation", the witness said. Ten days later, when he happened to pass by the garage, he asked the guard where the prisoners were and the guard told him that one or two remained, showing with a movement of his hand that the others had been killed. Dulovic, who works with the weekly "Vreme", during the war reported for Belgrade's "Politika ekspres" daily from the front in eastern Slavonia. He requested an open court hearing despite the fact that the authorities in Belgrade on Friday notified the tribunal that Dulovic had received death threats. The testimony resumes on Thursday. (hina) rml sb