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Case name

Ovčara III (AA)

Case number

КТRZ 4/03

Number of victims

Persons indicted

Defendant: AA

Rank(s) of person(s) indicted

lower military

Indictment date

Case stage

finally resolved

Duration of proceedings since trial commencement

1 month 24 days

Witnesses examined

7

Date and outcome of the first instance verdict

20 years in prison

Date and outcome of decision on appeal

15 years in prison

Date and outcome of verdict in new trial

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Criminal offence

war crime against prisoners of war under art. 144 in re art. 22 (co-perpetration) of the FRY Criminal Act

Background facts

The court found that the defendant, acting as a member of the Vukovar Territorial Defence force, had been present in the shooting platoon which had killed approximately 200 Croats - prisoners of war at the Ovčara farm outside Vukovar, Croatia. See Ovčara I.

Procedural remarks

After a trial in absentia before the court in Osijek, Croatia, the defendant was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The defendant was subsequently arrested in Norway pursuant to an international arrest warrant and extradited to Serbia.

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