SERBIA has convicted 14 former Serb militia members of the massacre of nearly 200 Croatian prisoners of war and wounded during the battle of Vukovar in November 1991.

A special Belgrade court found them guilty of carrying out at least 192 executions on a pig farm at the end of the three-month siege of Croatia's easternmost town by local Serb rebels backed by Yugoslav army troops, tanks and artillery.

The slaughter at the start of Croatia's war of independence was the first atrocity of many to come in the ensuing four years

The Daily Telegraph

12.11.05