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Article: WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL BEGINS FOR SERB SUSPECT PROSECUTOR SAYS HE HAS WITNESSES, FORENSICS TO TIE MAN TO MASSACRE.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- January 20, 1998
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Byline: Mike Corder Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Forensic evidence from a mass grave will provide ``harrowing details'' of a massacre and help prove the guilt of a Croatian Serb charged in the killing spree, a war crimes prosecutor said Monday.
Slavko Dokmanovic has pleaded innocent to six charges that he took part in the beatings and summary execution of 200 Croats and Muslims captured in the Croatian city of Vukovar in November 1991.
Dokmanovic's trial began Monday before a three-judge panel of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. In opening remarks, prosecutor Grant Niemann said his evidence will include testimony from forensic ...