War crimes trial hears pig farm massacre survivors

Two former Croat prisoners of war who narrowly escaped a 1991 massacre of more than 200 fellow POWs at a pig farm in eastern Croatia testified yesterday at a landmark trial of 17 Serb paramilitaries charged in the slaughter.

The appearance of Emil Cakalic and Dragutin Berghofer before Serbia’s special war crimes court is the first time that any of the survivors of the Ovcara massacre – which took place in November 1991 – were called in to testify since the proceedings opened in March.