Witness recalls rampage led by “Šešelj’s boys”

Witness Đuro Matovina told the Hague that “Šešelj’s boys” had committed mass murders in 1991 in the village of Voćin in Slavonia.

Source: Beta

Wednesday, 14.05.2008.

11:34

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Witness Djuro Matovina told the Hague that “Seselj’s boys” had committed mass murders in 1991 in the village of Vocin in Slavonia. Serb Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj is accused of war crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1991 and 1993. Witness recalls rampage led by “Seselj’s boys” Even though the details of the crimes in Vocin were left out of the indictment in order to speed up the trial, the prosecution required testimony and evidence of the incidents in order to present a clearer picture of the acts committed by SRS volunteers during the war. Matovina was one of a group of Croat police officers that discovered the bodies of 45 murdered civilians—mostly elderly people of Croatian and Hungarian nationality—in Vocin on December 14, 1991 . The witness said that the Vocin massacre had been committed by “the most extreme members” of local Serb forces’ “special units,” along with “about 80 ‘White Eagles’, volunteers from Serbia, and ‘Seselj’s boys’.” The prosecution played video footage of elderly people being killed in cold blood in the streets of the village. Seselj, however, claims that in earlier testimony at the Tribunal during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in 2002, Matovina never mentioned “Seselj’s boys”, but specifically said that the crimes had been perpetrated by the “White Eagles.” The defendant admitted, however, that “crimes in Vocin took place and that no one can deny that.” Matovina will be cross-examined by Seselj today.

Witness recalls rampage led by “Šešelj’s boys”

Even though the details of the crimes in Voćin were left out of the indictment in order to speed up the trial, the prosecution required testimony and evidence of the incidents in order to present a clearer picture of the acts committed by SRS volunteers during the war.

Matovina was one of a group of Croat police officers that discovered the bodies of 45 murdered civilians—mostly elderly people of Croatian and Hungarian nationality—in Voćin on December 14, 1991 .

The witness said that the Voćin massacre had been committed by “the most extreme members” of local Serb forces’ “special units,” along with “about 80 ‘White Eagles’, volunteers from Serbia, and ‘Šešelj’s boys’.”

The prosecution played video footage of elderly people being killed in cold blood in the streets of the village.

Šešelj, however, claims that in earlier testimony at the Tribunal during the trial of Slobodan Milošević in 2002, Matovina never mentioned “Šešelj’s boys”, but specifically said that the crimes had been perpetrated by the “White Eagles.”

The defendant admitted, however, that “crimes in Voćin took place and that no one can deny that.”

Matovina will be cross-examined by Šešelj today.

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