AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF OVCARA

ZAGRE, March 14 (Hina) - The international human rights protection organization "Amnesty International" on Thursday reiterated the call to the international community to bring to justice the persons who had killed hundreds of people after the fall of Vukovar in 1991. #L# "It is appalling that the families and friends of Sinisa Glavasevic and many others who were killed after the fall of Vukovar must now still wait for justice after waiting more than five years for the truth about the fat of their "disappeared" relatives and friends," the international secretariat of Amnesty international said in a statement. "Sinisa Glavasevic was the managing editor of Radio Vukovar throughout the three-month siege of the eastern Slavonian city in 1991. Along with the station's technician, Branimir Polovina, Glavasevic's body was recently exhumed from a mass grave at the village of Ovcara, near Vukovar. The identification of these two men as among those who were killed at Ovcara and their funerals this week highlight the continuing failure of the international community to love up to its obligations to see that those responsible are brought swiftly to justice. The campaign for Justice for Sinisa, Branimir and all the others who died at Ovcara must now continue," the statement said. The organization also called on authorities in FR Yugoslavia to cooperate with the International Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and to ensure that those indicted by the Tribunal and were living in its territory, were extradited to ICTY without delay so that their guilt or innocence could be established in a trial in line with international standards. ICTY had in 1995 charged three officers of the former Yugoslav National Army (JNA) for crimes at Ovcara, the statement said, adding that the three were still free on the territory of FR Yugoslavia. (hina) lm 141019 MET mar 97