ZAGREB, February 19, 2018 - Sisak County Court on Monday sentenced a Serb citizen in absentia to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of three and attempted murder of four Croatian police officers while commanding a Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) tank.
The state prosecutor's office on Monday reported that Zoran Tomić had been found guilty of each count of his indictment and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
Tomić was charged that on 26 July 1991, as the commander of a JNA tank which was heading from Hrvatska Kostajnica toward Kozibrod in an effort to set up a 'buffer zone' between Croatian police forces and Serb paramilitary forces, stopped the tank and targeted a Croatian police vehicle killing three Croatian police officers, one was wounded while three were unharmed.
