Following the death of Slavko Dokmanovic on 29 June 1998, the Trial Chamber issued an order terminating the proceedings against him on 15 July 1998

The Indictment ( "Vukovar Hospital")

The Consolidated Amended Indictment was filed on 9 February 2004 pursuant to a Trial Chamber Decision of 23 January 2004 and the Trial Chamber Corrigendum of 26 January 2004. The Second Modified Consolidated Amended Indictment which was filed on 26 August 2004 pursuant to a Trial Chamber Decision of 20 July 2004 alleges that, in late August 1991, the Yugoslav Peoples Army (“JNA”) laid siege to the city of Vukovar. The siege continued until 18 November 1991 when the city fell to the Serb forces. During the course of the three-month siege, the city was largely destroyed by JNA shelling and hundreds of persons were killed. When the Serb forces occupied the city, hundreds more non-Serbs were killed by Serb forces. The overwhelming majority of the remaining non-Serb population of the city was expelled within days of the fall of Vukovar. In the last days of the siege, several hundred people sought refuge at the Vukovar Hospital in the hope that it would be evacuated in the presence of international observers.
According to the Indictment, Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin participated in a joint criminal enterprise. The purpose of this joint criminal enterprise was the persecution of Croats or other non-Serbs who were present in the Vukovar Hospital after the fall of Vukovar, through the commission of murder, torture, cruel treatment, extermination and inhumane acts.
It is further alleged that on 20 November 1991, JNA soldiers removed about 400 non-Serbs from the Vukovar Hospital. Miroslav Radic and Veselin Šljivancanin personally participated in the selection of detainees who were to be loaded on buses. The buses left the hospital and proceeded to the JNA barracks where Serb forces comprised of the Territorial Defence (“TO”), volunteer and paramilitary soldiers humiliated and threatened detainees. Some detainees were removed from the buses and beaten in the presence of members of the JNA. Then detainees were transported to a farm building in Ovcara where soldiers beat them. Soldiers then transported their non-Serb captives in groups of about 10 to 20 to a ravine in the direction of Grabovo where they killed at least 264 Croats and other non-Serbs from Vukovar Hospital. After the killings, the bodies of the victims were buried by bulldozer in a mass grave at the same location.

According to the Indictment, the Accused held the following positions during the relevant period:

Mile Mrksic was a colonel in the JNA and commander of the 1st Guards Motorised Brigade and Operational Group. After the siege of Vukovar, he was promoted to general rank with the Yugoslav Army (“VJ”) and became the commanding officer of the army of the so-called “Republic of Serb Krajina” (“RSK”) in May 1995.
Miroslav Radic was a captain in the JNA. He commanded an infantry unit in the 1st Battalion of the 1st Guards Motorised Brigade.
Veselin Sljivancanin was a major in the JNA. He was the security officer of the 1st Guards Motorised Brigade and Operational Group South and as such de facto in charge of a military police battalion subordinated to the 1st Guards Motorised Brigade. After the fall of Vukovar, Sljivancanin was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and placed in command of the VJ brigade in Podgorica, Montenegro.

Charges:
Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic, Veselin Sljivancanin are charged on the basis of individual criminal responsibility (Article 7(1)) and superior criminal responsibility (Article 7(3) of the Statute)) with:

Five counts of crimes against humanity (Article 5 of the Statute – persecutions on political, racial, and religious grounds; extermination; murder; torture; inhumane acts) and
Three counts of violations of the laws or customs of war (Article 3 of the Statute – murder; torture; cruel treatment)

Trial Chamber II
Judge Carmel Agius (Presiding), Malta
Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti, France
Judge Kevin Parker, Australia

Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Jan Wubben

Counsel for the Defence
For Mile Mrksic:
Mr. Miroslav Vasic
For Miroslav Radic:
Mr. Borivoje Borovic
Ms. Mira Tapuskovic
For Veselin Šljivancanin:
Mr. Novak Lukic
Mr. Momcilo Bulatovic