Vukovar Three appeal under way

The appeal process in the trial of General Mile Mrkšić and former JNA Colonel Veselin Šljivančanin, convicted of war crimes in Croatia, has got under way.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 21.01.2009.

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The appeal process in the trial of General Mile Mrksic and former JNA Colonel Veselin Sljivancanin, convicted of war crimes in Croatia, has got under way. The two were found guilty of war crimes committed against Croatian prisoners-of-war at the Ovcara farm near Vukovar in late November 1991. Vukovar Three appeal under way Former Hague president Judge Theodor Meron will be preside over the appeals. Mrksic surrender voluntarily on May 15, 2003, while Sljivancanin was arrested in his Belgrade apartment on June 13, 2003 and extradited to The Hague on July 1. The trial began on October 11, 2005 and ended with the closing statements on March 16, 2007, with the prosecution demanding life sentences and the defense calling for all charges to be dropped. On September 27, 2007, Mrksic was found guilty of withdrawing military police who had been guarding the prisoners at the Ovcara farm, thus “facilitating and encouraging” their murder, for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Sljivancanin was sentenced to five years in jail for not adequately guarding the farm and for complicity in the torture of prisoners. The third defendant in the so-called Vukovar Three trial, Miroslav Radic, was cleared of all charges by the UN court. At the trial it was established that 194 prisoners had been killed, but that Serbian officers had not been part of a “criminal enterprise”, nor had they ordered troops at Ovcara to commit the crimes.

Vukovar Three appeal under way

Former Hague president Judge Theodor Meron will be preside over the appeals.

Mrkšić surrender voluntarily on May 15, 2003, while Šljivančanin was arrested in his Belgrade apartment on June 13, 2003 and extradited to The Hague on July 1.

The trial began on October 11, 2005 and ended with the closing statements on March 16, 2007, with the prosecution demanding life sentences and the defense calling for all charges to be dropped.

On September 27, 2007, Mrkšić was found guilty of withdrawing military police who had been guarding the prisoners at the Ovčara farm, thus “facilitating and encouraging” their murder, for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Šljivančanin was sentenced to five years in jail for not adequately guarding the farm and for complicity in the torture of prisoners.

The third defendant in the so-called Vukovar Three trial, Miroslav Radić, was cleared of all charges by the UN court.

At the trial it was established that 194 prisoners had been killed, but that Serbian officers had not been part of a “criminal enterprise”, nor had they ordered troops at Ovčara to commit the crimes.

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