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SERBIAN ACCUSED OF HORRENDOUS WAR CRIMES IS LIVING IN UK

Vukovar was dubbed "Croatia's Stalingrad"

Thursday April 10,2008

By Jack Teague for express.co.uk

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A SERBIAN working as a locksmith in Britain has been charged with taking part in the execution of hundreds of Croats, war crime prosecutors said today.

39-year-old Milorad Pejic is alleged to have been involved in a horrific massacre at a farm in Ovkara, Croatia in 1991, where 200 ethnic Croats were murdered.

As Serbian troops bombarded Vukovar, dubbed “Croatia’s Stalingrad” because of the devastation brought on it in the attack, prisoners of war sought refuge in a hospital. And when the city fell, Serbian troops seized the prisoners.

At least 200 were taken to a pig farm in Ovcara and beaten, tortured and then killed. Their bodies were found in mass graves.

In December 2005, 14 former soldiers were sentenced to jail terms of up to 20 years for their involvement in the massacre.

Pejic has been living in the Northamptonshire town of Corby since settling in the UK in 1999 with his wife and two sons.

And last month family friend Slobodan Bozic said the Serbian authorities were trying to find evidence to bring against the Mr Pejic.

Mr Bozic said: “They are trying to find evidence to bring against him. How long this is going to take, we do not know. How long she is going to live like this - it could be months. The process in Serbia can take a long time.

“All she wants is to see him back home. He hasn’t done anything wrong.

“Since he has lived in England he has never had any problems with the law. Our belief is that he is totally innocent. He is a good father, a good friend and a good husband.”

He was arrested when visiting his mother in Belgrade last month.

Prosecutors have since said that Pejic will not face trial at The Hague but in Serbia. This is because he did not hold a high enough rank that would warrant him being sent to The Hague.

SERBIAN ACCUSED OF HORRENDOUS WAR CRIMES IS LIVING IN UK

10.04.08, 9:07pm

Face it, he just one of tens of thousand who have come to this country to escape their criminal past since Labour left the doors open to world wide immigration. This Government has no idea or cares who is living in this country.

• Posted by: chris49 • Report Comment

CYCINALSTEPHEN

10.04.08, 7:47pm

YOU said it ! You USED to live in a free and fair country but NOT ANYMORE.

When we were a free and fair country we could deport evil bastards if we chose to.

If this man is innocent, then he will have nothing to worry about. As the odds are that he is probably responsible for what they say he has done, then he MUST stand trial and prove his innocense or otherwise.

We DO NOT need to keep taking in and protecting the scum of the world. We have enough of our own.

Trouble is WE ARE NOT A FREE COUNTRY ANY MORE, we are RULED BY, CONTROLLED BY THE EU and its only going to get worse.

VISIT THE UKIP SITE AND WATCH THEIR VIDEO,SEE JUST WHAT IS BEING DONE TO OUR ONCE FREE AND FAIR COUNTRY!

• Posted by: Jac16 • Report Comment

WHY STOP THERE?

10.04.08, 4:31pm

It amazes me how the powers that be can appear to pick and choose whome they charge with war crimes. Why is Tony Blair permitted to roam free on the world stage, peddling his verbage in exchange for cash, when he alone has the blood of thousands - including his countrymen - on his hands?

• Posted by: Adanac • Report Comment

CYCINALSTEPHEN

10.04.08, 4:06pm

It is enough that he is accused.
He may not be convicted and as such will face no punishment till he is tried and found guilty.
But Britain should deport him anyway.
There is no smoke without fire and we have enough murderers, terrorists, rapists, pimps, paeodophiles living in our midst.
It is time to stop this PC madness.

DEPORT HIM
DEPORT ALL IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE CLOGGING OUR JAILS AND OUR BENEFIT SYSTEM.

• Posted by: abuela • Report Comment

SERBIAN ACCUSED ...

10.04.08, 3:24pm

Get this right, please. He is at the moment only accused .... not tried and convicted. Or do we string them up first, then try them post-mortem, these NuLabor days? Not that I would be surprised, for I was born in, and used to live in, a free and fair country. Nowadays, I wonder!

• Posted by: CycinalStephen • Report Comment