BELGRADE BELGRADE, March 9 (Hina) - Six persons accused of killing at least 192 Croatian prisoners of war at the Ovcara farm outside Vukovar in 1991 went on trial before the Special War Crimes Court in Belgrade on Tuesday.
BELGRADE, March 9 (Hina) - Six persons accused of killing at least 192
Croatian prisoners of war at the Ovcara farm outside Vukovar in 1991
went on trial before the Special War Crimes Court in Belgrade on
Tuesday.#L#
The accused are Miroljub Vujovic, 41, former commander of the Vukovar
Territorial Defence; his deputy, Stanko Vujanovic, 45; Jovica Peric,
39; Mirko Vojinovic, 65; Ivan Atanasijevic, 43, whose previous name
was Ivica Husnik; Predrag Madzarac, 33; and Milan Vojnovic, 56.
The fourth defendant, Mirko Vojinovic aka Capalo, 65, died in a Novi
Sad hospital on Monday as a result of the injuries sustained in a
suicide attempt in late January, when he jumped from the third floor
of the hospital.
Reporters were told that the trial had started an hour and a half late
due to technical problems.
The trial was attended, among others, by Vesna Terselic of a Croatian
non-government organisation, Natasa Kandic, director of the
Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Fund, and members of the Committee for
the Protection of Veselin Sljivancanin, who had been indicted for the
same crime by the Hague tribunal.
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