New indictment in Ovčara case

The War Crimes Prosecution in Belgrade has raised a new indictment for war crimes at the Ovcara farm in Croatia in 1991. The prosecution announced yesterday that it has indicted Momcilo Pejic, Beta news agency reported. New indictment in Ovcara case Pejic, 39, a locksmith from Vukovar, resident of Corby, Great Britain, is indicted for participating, while a member of the Vukovar territorial defense, in the execution of 200 Croatian prisoners of war at the Ovcara farm in Croatia, in the night between Nov. 21 and 22, 1991. The war crimes prosecutor has proposed that the trial of Pejic be combined with that against 16 persons currently underway before the War Crimes Chamber of the Special Court in Belgrade, since they are being tried for the same crime, with the same evidence. The prosecutor also said this was a joint criminal enterprise aimed at accomplishing a joint illegal goal. Pejic was arrested at the Belgrade Airport on March 19 this year, under an international warrant of the investigating judge of the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, issued in 2006. In December 2005, 14 people were convicted for the war crime at Ovcara, and two were acquitted. One year later, the Supreme Court of Serbia annulled this verdict and ordered a retrial. In a separate trial, the accused Sasa Radak was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

New indictment in Ovčara case

Pejić, 39, a locksmith from Vukovar, resident of Corby, Great Britain, is indicted for participating, while a member of the Vukovar territorial defense, in the execution of 200 Croatian prisoners of war at the Ovčara farm in Croatia, in the night between Nov. 21 and 22, 1991.

The war crimes prosecutor has proposed that the trial of Pejić be combined with that against 16 persons currently underway before the War Crimes Chamber of the Special Court in Belgrade, since they are being tried for the same crime, with the same evidence.

The prosecutor also said this was a joint criminal enterprise aimed at accomplishing a joint illegal goal.

Pejić was arrested at the Belgrade Airport on March 19 this year, under an international warrant of the investigating judge of the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, issued in 2006.

In December 2005, 14 people were convicted for the war crime at Ovčara, and two were acquitted. One year later, the Supreme Court of Serbia annulled this verdict and ordered a retrial.

In a separate trial, the accused Saša Radak was sentenced to 20 years in prison.