Veselin Sljivancanin, a former senior officer of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners of war at the Ovcara farm after the fall of the Croatian town of Vukovar and sentenced to 10 years in prison, was released after having served two thirds of his term, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) reported on Thursday.
The decision on Sljivancanin's release was made on 5 July and the document was classified. However. the information about this was made public after he left the prison.
Sljivancanin was convicted for the Ovcara atrocities against Croatians, committed in November 1991, and first sentenced to 17 years in prison. However, in 2010, this UN tribunal revised this sentence to 10 years.
