The three men -- Veselin Sljivancanin, Mile Mrksic, and Miroslav Radic -- are charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly allowing troops under their control to remove hundreds of non-Serb patients and other people from a Vukovar hospital and transport them to a nearby farm in November 1991.
At least 264 people, most of them Croatians, were eventually killed and their bodies buried in a mass grave.
The three men have pleaded not guilty.
They are not accused of personally murdering the victims, but the prosecution says they were responsible for the forces that carried out the massacre, which was one of the most notorious atrocities of the Balkan wars.
(Reuters/AFP)
At least 264 people, most of them Croatians, were eventually killed and their bodies buried in a mass grave.
The three men have pleaded not guilty.
They are not accused of personally murdering the victims, but the prosecution says they were responsible for the forces that carried out the massacre, which was one of the most notorious atrocities of the Balkan wars.
(Reuters/AFP)