Judgment at The Hague heedless of the gravity of the „murder orgy” of Vukovar

The sentences of the UN War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague in the case concerning the massacre of Vukovar in 1991 in Croatia are criticised by the General Secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV), Tilman Zülch, as too mild and heedless of the gravity of the crimes. Here is the text:

The mass shooting of patients and staff of the hospital of Vukovar and the ensuing expulsion of the non-Serb inhabitants of the town began the chain of war crimes of the Serb military in the former republics of Yugoslavia . There followed many massacres, the bombing of open towns for many years and the setting-up of concentration and rape camps. We have documented these first horrible war crimes and the later genocide, first in Croatia and then in Bosnia and Herzegovina from beginning to end. Personalities like Simon Wiesenthal and Marek Edelman have always condemned these crimes in speeches and at meetings of the Society for Threatened Peoples and called for international intervention. They felt themselves reminded of the beginnings of the Nazi crimes.

With these extremely mild sentences the UN War Crimes Tribunal disregards the gravity of the „murder orgy” carried out by the three accused Mile Mrksic, Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic in Vukovar.”