BELGRADE ON TUESDAY BELGRADE, March 8 (Hina) - The trial of seven persons indicted for the killing of at least 192 Croatian prisoners of war at a farm outside Vukovar in 1991 will begin at the War Crimes Court in Belgrade on
Tuesday.
BELGRADE, March 8 (Hina) - The trial of seven persons indicted for the
killing of at least 192 Croatian prisoners of war at a farm outside
Vukovar in 1991 will begin at the War Crimes Court in Belgrade on
Tuesday.#L#
Miroljub Vujovic, 41, Stanko Vujanovic, 45, Jovica Peric, 39, Mirko
Vojnovic, 65, Ivan Atanasijevic, 43, Predrag Madzarac, 33, and Milan
Vojnovic, 56, are charged with the war crime committed at the Ovcara
farm.
It is still uncertain whether Mirko Vojnovic will stand trial together
with the other six indictees as he is still undergoing treatment in a
Novi Sad hospital after a recent suicide attempt.
The indictment, which was issued on 4 December 2003, charges the seven
with having killed at least 192 Croatian prisoners of war at the
Ovcara farm outside Vukovar on 20 and 21 November 1991. The accused
were at the time members of Vukovar's Territorial Defence units, which
were part of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). The identity of
the victims was established on the basis of reports of the Croatian
government's commission for missing and imprisoned persons and
exhumation and identification reports in the case.
Several other suspects are under investigation, including Milan
Lancuzanin aka Kameni, a former commander of the paramilitary unit
"Leva supoderica", who surrendered voluntarily to the police in
January this year.
The Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal provided some of the evidence
material in the case to the Serbian judiciary.
(Hina) rml