BELGRADE, June 26 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Justice Ministry has submitted to the Belgrade county prison a request for the extradition of the so-called Vukovar Three, officers of former Yugoslavia's federal army, to the Hague war crimes
tribunal, the Belgrade-based daily Glas said on Wednesday. The Hague tribunal's prosecutor's office charged Lt. Col. Veselin Sljivancanin, General Mile Mrksic, and Captain Miroslav Radic with the execution by shooting of 260 Croat men who were forced out of a hospital in Vukovar after ex-Yugoslavia's federal army, the JNA, occupied the eastern Croatian town in September 1991. Sljivancanin is a lecturer at the Belgrade military academy, while Mrksic and Radic are retired. Vukovar's former mayor Slavko Dokmanovic was also charged with the Vukovar Three. He was arrested and extradited to The Hague in 1997 but committed suicide next year, shortly before his
BELGRADE, June 26 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Justice Ministry has
submitted to the Belgrade county prison a request for the
extradition of the so-called Vukovar Three, officers of former
Yugoslavia's federal army, to the Hague war crimes tribunal, the
Belgrade-based daily Glas said on Wednesday.
The Hague tribunal's prosecutor's office charged Lt. Col. Veselin
Sljivancanin, General Mile Mrksic, and Captain Miroslav Radic with
the execution by shooting of 260 Croat men who were forced out of a
hospital in Vukovar after ex-Yugoslavia's federal army, the JNA,
occupied the eastern Croatian town in September 1991.
Sljivancanin is a lecturer at the Belgrade military academy, while
Mrksic and Radic are retired. Vukovar's former mayor Slavko
Dokmanovic was also charged with the Vukovar Three. He was arrested
and extradited to The Hague in 1997 but committed suicide next year,
shortly before his verdict was due.
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