VUKOVAR VUKOVAR, Dec 18 (Hina) - The trial of 18 people indicted for genocide and war crimes against civilians in the eastern Croatian village of Lovas in October, November and December 1991, resumed at the Vukovar County Court on
Thursday under the chairmanship of Judge Ante Zeljko.
VUKOVAR, Dec 18 (Hina) - The trial of 18 people indicted for genocide
and war crimes against civilians in the eastern Croatian village of
Lovas in October, November and December 1991, resumed at the Vukovar
County Court on Thursday under the chairmanship of Judge Ante Zeljko.#L#
Ilija Vorkapic (born in 1947), 18th on the indictment, is the only
indictee available to the Croatian judiciary, while the others are
being tried in absentia.
Sixty-nine people were killed during the Serb aggression on and
occupation of Lovas, of whom 24 were killed in a minefield. According
to the indictment, the first indictee, Ljuban Devetak, on 18 October
1991 singled out some 80 local Croats, who were then taken to a
minefield outside Lovas and forced to go into the minefield holding
their hands. Twenty-four people were killed by mines on the occasion,
and 15 were wounded. Some 50 Croat houses in the village were set on
fire, while the Roman Catholic church was destroyed.
(Hina) rml sb