Mile Mrkšić
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Mile Mrkšić (Миле Мркшић) (born July 20, 1947 near Vrginmost, Yugoslavia, now Croatia) is a former Serbian colonel of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He was in charge of the JNA army unit which attacked and subsequently occupied the town of Vukovar during the Battle of Vukovar in 1991. He is accused of being responsible for the mass killing of about 260 non-Serb people that followed the fall of Vukovar.
After the battle of Vukovar, he got promoted to General in the JNA and later Commander in Chief of the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) in May 1995. After the defeat of the Army of the RSK by Croatian forces in August 1995, he retired from military service.
Mrkšić was indicted in 1995, along with Miroslav Radić, Veselin Šljivančanin and Slavko Dokmanović, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The indictment accuses them of being responsible for the mass killing at Ovčara, near Vukovar, of approximately 260 captive non-Serb men.
He voluntarily surrendered to the ICTY on 15 May 2002 and was transferred to the ICTY the same day. The trial against him commenced in October 2005 and is (as of November 2006) still in progress.
[edit] See also
- Battle of Vukovar
- Vukovar massacre
- Croatian War of Independence
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
[edit] External Links
- ICTY Case Sheet
- ICTY Amended Indictment
- BBC News Profile on The 'Vukovar Three', BBC News, 9 March, 2004
