VUKOVAR, Feb 3(Hina) - The trial of eight Croatian Serbs, accused of war crimes committed against civilians between August 1 and September 13, 1991, while they were members of Croatian Serb rebel police forces and Territorial Defence
units in Borovo near Vukovar, resumed on Tuesday at the Vukovar County Court with witness testimonies.
VUKOVAR, Feb 3(Hina) - The trial of eight Croatian Serbs, accused of
war crimes committed against civilians between August 1 and September
13, 1991, while they were members of Croatian Serb rebel police forces
and Territorial Defence units in Borovo near Vukovar, resumed on
Tuesday at the Vukovar County Court with witness testimonies.#L#
Three of the eight accused are on the run. Jovan Curcic, Milos Drzaic,
Mladen Maksimovic, Dragan Savic, Dusko Misic, Zeljko Savic, Dragan
Savic and Jovica Vucenovic are charged with detaining and torturing
people in the basement of the Borovo police station, which was
situated in the house of an expelled local resident, and in the local
fire-fighting department building.
Witness Karlo Povazsony said he had heard that people had been
detained in the local community building in Borovo, but he did not
know whether and where detainees had been taken from there. The
witness said he considered the principal indictee Curcic as a good man
about whom he had not heard anything bad.
Witness Zeljko Pejakovic, who started working for the police of the
so-called Serb Autonomous District of Krajina in August 1991, said the
basement of the police station was intended for detaining people who
disturbed public peace and order. "That's what it was intended for,
but I don't know what it was actually used for".
Zeljko Stefancic of Borovo, whose mother and niece were killed in the
occupation of the village, said that one evening somebody had opened
fire at his house and that he was wounded. The witness did not see
who or how many people entered his house. His mother and niece were
taken to another room, where they were killed.
(Hina) rml