Serbia's war crimes court jailed 13 former Serb paramilitaries on Thursday for the 1991 massacre of 200 Croats, among the atrocities of the wars that broke up Yugoslavia.
Local commander Miroljub Vujovic and six other defendants were sentenced at a retrial to 20 years each in jail. Six others were imprisoned for between five and 15 years.
The Ovcara massacre took place when the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army overran the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in November 1991 after a siege lasting months.
The verdict said that Serbian paramilitaries, led by Vujovic, took Croatian prisoners of war in small groups to the Ovcara pig farm, where they were mown down with machine guns."Those still moving were finished off with pistols," the verdict said.
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