Ex-officers appeal to be heard at Hague

Former JNA officer Veselin Šljivančanin will try to be the first to ever get a Hague Tribunal conviction nullified, said reports.

Izvor: B92

Tuesday, 25.05.2010.

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Former JNA officer Veselin Sljivancanin will try to be the first to ever get a Hague Tribunal conviction nullified, said reports. A session has been scheduled for June 3 at which his defense will try to convince the judges that they made an error when they found their client guilty of the murder of some 200 Croatian prisoners in 1991. Ex-officers appeal to be heard at Hague The former Chief-of-Staff of the JNA Guard Brigade Miodrag Panic will be called to the Tribunal again to explain whether the defendant was able to know what the fate of the prisoners at the Ovcara farm would be. “In the 16 years of the Tribunal’s work, there has been no debate of a demand for revising a verdict,” Sljivancanin’s attorney Novak Lukic told B92. He added that the Appeals Chamber would make the final decision on accepting or rejecting the demand after a hearing on the relevance of the new evidence. Sljivancanin was sentenced on May 5, 2009 to 17 years in prison for aiding in a crime against Croatian prisoners near the town of Vukovar in 1991. The Tribunal changed the initial sentencing from five to 17 years for helping in the murder of 194 Croatian prisoners at the Ovcara farm on November 20-21, 1991. Sljivancanin, right, in a Hague courtroom (file)

Ex-officers appeal to be heard at Hague

The former Chief-of-Staff of the JNA Guard Brigade Miodrag Panić will be called to the Tribunal again to explain whether the defendant was able to know what the fate of the prisoners at the Ovčara farm would be.

“In the 16 years of the Tribunal’s work, there has been no debate of a demand for revising a verdict,” Šljivančanin’s attorney Novak Lukić told B92.

He added that the Appeals Chamber would make the final decision on accepting or rejecting the demand after a hearing on the relevance of the new evidence.

Šljivančanin was sentenced on May 5, 2009 to 17 years in prison for aiding in a crime against Croatian prisoners near the town of Vukovar in 1991.

The Tribunal changed the initial sentencing from five to 17 years for helping in the murder of 194 Croatian prisoners at the Ovčara farm on November 20-21, 1991.

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