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The Vukovar massacre, also known as the Vukovar hospital massacre or the Ovčara massacre, was the killing of Croatian prisoners of war and civilians by Serb paramilitaries, to whom they had been turned over by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), at the Ovčara farm southeast of Vukovar on 20 November 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence.
The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991.
Nov 18, 2021 · The Yugoslav People’s Army, aided by Serb Territorial Defence forces and paramilitaries from Serbia, launched a full-blown attack on Vukovar in eastern Croatia on August 25, 1991, beginning a...
Nov 18, 2020 · The murders of over 30 people who were taken from Vukovar to Dalj after Vukovar fell was a count in the indictments of both Slobodan Milosevic and Goran Hadzic.
Jul 15, 2021 · In August 1991, as Yugoslavia disintegrated, national army troops and paramilitary forces laid siege to the city of Vukovar in northeastern Croatia.
Nov 20, 2015 · Those buried here are all victims of the “massacre of Vukovar”; one of the worst atrocities committed during the 1991 “Domovinski rat” or homeland war, which pitted Croats against Serbs.
Dec 12, 2005 · A Serbian court has sentenced 14 former militiamen to jail terms of up to 20 years for the massacre of at least 200 prisoners of war in Croatia in 1991. The executions were carried out at a pig...
