Lovas killings

Dusan Loncar entered a not guilty plea at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday, insisting that he did not issue an order to attack the Croatian village of Lovas in October 1991, causing civilian casualties.

"After 32 years [since the attack], I saw that order for the first time when my lawyer got the documents [from the court] after the preparatory hearing," Loncar told the court.

Belgrade Appeals Court has reduced the sentences handed down to six men who were convicted of involvement in a war crime against civilians in Lovas in Croatia in October 1991, and acquitted two others who had been found guilty at their initial trial.

The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre on Friday criticised the Serbian war crimes prosecutors for not indicting Dusan Loncar, commander of the Second Guards Brigade of the Yugoslav People's Army, or any senior Yugoslav officer for the killings of Croatian civilians in Lovas in 1991.

Six of the eight defendants in the Lovas trial gave closing statements at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday, insisting that they were not guilty of war crimes and asking for acquittals.

One of them, Radislav Josipovic, said he was sorry for the victims who were killed in the Croatian village in October 1991.

The Serbian war crimes prosecution asked for a total of 59 years in prison for eight Serb ex-fighters accused of killing Croatian civilians in the village of Lovas in 1991.

Medical experts told a Belgrade court that one of ten former Serbian fighters accused of the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the village of Lovas in 1991 has become permanently unfit to stand trial.

Ten former Serb fighters again pleaded not guilty to the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the village of Lovas in 1991 as their long-running trial restarted in Belgrade.

A Serbian court restarted the trial for the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the village of Lovas in 1991 on a technicality because the war crimes prosecutor's office did not have a chief prosecutor for a year-and-a-half.

The retrial of Miroslav Jovic, a member of rebel Croatian Serb forces accused of killing one Croat civilian and wounding another during wartime in 1991, started at Zagreb county court.

Zagreb state attorney’s office filed an indictment accusing 22 members of rebel Croatian Serb forces of committing war crimes against Croats in villages in the Slavonia region in 1991.