Yugoslav People’s Army

Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre filed a criminal complaint to Serbia’s war crimes prosecution accusing a former Yugoslav People’s Army commander of ordering a deadly attack on the Croatian village of Lovas in 1991.

Prosecutors accused retired Yugoslav People’s Army general Borislav Djukic of being responsible for deadly attacks on Croatian civilians and property in the Sibenik area during the war.

SARAJEVO – Church services were held and flowers laid in Sarajevo on Tuesday for the victims of a 1992 massacre of soldiers of the former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) in the city’s Dobrovoljacka Street. Forty-two soldiers were killed, 71 wounded and 207 more taken prisoner in attacks by Muslim paramilitary forces and so-called Territorial Defence

Montenegro has extradited former Yugoslav People’s Army officer Pavle Pantic to Croatia to stand trial for the shelling of the coastal city of Split during the war in 1991.

Belgrade’s appeals court acquitted Bosnian ex-policemen Ilija Jurisic of an attack on the retreating Yugoslav People’s Army in the Bosnian town of Tuzla in 1992, overturning his original 12-year sentence.

Former Croatian president Stjepan Mesic said Veljko Kadijevic, the wartime commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who has died in exile, should have been tried for war crimes.

Veljko Kadijevic, the wartime commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who was accused but never convicted of war crimes during the conflict in Croatia, has died in exile.

Wreaths were laid in the coastal city to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the attack by the Yugoslav People’s Army and Montenegrin Territorial Defence forces which began an eight-month siege.

The unrecognised Serb government in Croatia had no authority over the military actions of the Yugoslav People’s Army and Territorial Defence fighters, a former minister told the trial of its leader Goran Hadzic.

Nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj told the trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic that the Yugoslav People’s Army was in charge of all Serb fighters during the conflict in Croatia.