VUKOVAR, March 19 (Hina) - The Vukovar County Court found 11 Croatian Serb suspects guilty and sentenced them to prison for committing war crimes against civilians in eastern Croatia. All of the convicts were tried in absentia.
According to the court's ruling, Zeljko Vuckovic should spend eight years in jail, Rajko Milosevic got six years of imprisonment and Zlatan Kulic, Nikola Teodorovic, Miodrag Simeunovic, Dragoljub Savicin, Ranko Sljubara, Drago Vuckovic, Mihajlo Mijatovic, Goran Mijatovic and Radojko Radmilovic got five years, judge Nikola Besenski said on Monday. The trial was wrapped up three days ago. Owing to a lack of evidence, the twelfth man in this group, Predrag Simeunovic, was acquitted. In the period between 1992 and 1995, the 11 Serbs persecuted and harassed Croatian villagers in Babska (near the town of Ilok, eastern-most Croatia) in order to rid the village of Croats and make Babska a
VUKOVAR, March 19 (Hina) - The Vukovar County Court found 11
Croatian Serb suspects guilty and sentenced them to prison for
committing war crimes against civilians in eastern Croatia.
All of the convicts were tried in absentia.
According to the court's ruling, Zeljko Vuckovic should spend eight
years in jail, Rajko Milosevic got six years of imprisonment and
Zlatan Kulic, Nikola Teodorovic, Miodrag Simeunovic, Dragoljub
Savicin, Ranko Sljubara, Drago Vuckovic, Mihajlo Mijatovic, Goran
Mijatovic and Radojko Radmilovic got five years, judge Nikola
Besenski said on Monday.
The trial was wrapped up three days ago.
Owing to a lack of evidence, the twelfth man in this group, Predrag
Simeunovic, was acquitted.
In the period between 1992 and 1995, the 11 Serbs persecuted and
harassed Croatian villagers in Babska (near the town of Ilok,
eastern-most Croatia) in order to rid the village of Croats and make
Babska a Serb village.
They intimidated local Croats, plundered their homes and in May
1995 expelled the remaining 69 Croats, threatening to kill them.
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