The SDG were under the command Control of the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , which was controlled Control by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević .

Milošević was indicted Criminal_investigation by the ICTY and charged Criminal_investigation with carrying out Action a genocidal campaign that included Cause_to_be_included Bijeljina and other locations , but died Death during the trial Testing .

The occupation of Lovas and the killing Killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included Cause_to_be_included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indictments of the President of Serbia , Slobodan Milošević , and Goran Hadžić , a high-ranking official of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia .

Both Milošević and Hadžić died Death before their trials could be completed .

Stanislav Galić and Dragomir Milošević were sentenced to life imprisonment Prison and 29 years imprisonment respectively .

In 2007 , the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) returned Arriving a guilty verdict Legal_rulings against Milan Martić , one of the Serb leaders in Croatia , for having colluded Collaboration with Slobodan Milošević and others to create Creating a `` unified Serbian state '' .

Initially the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) sought to preserve Preserving the unity of the whole of Yugoslavia by crushing Destroying the secessionist governments , but it increasingly came under the influence of the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević , which evoked Causation Serbian nationalist rhetoric and was willing to use Using the Yugoslav cause to preserve Preserving the unity of Serbs in one state .

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) later charged Judgment_communication Slobodan Milošević with the killings and Vojislav Šešelj with the deportation of non-Serbs from Voćin .

After the war , the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) charged Judgment_communication high-ranking SAO SBWS and Serbian officials , including Slobodan Milošević and Goran Hadžić , with war crimes committed Commitment in Dalj .

The ICTY convicted Legal_rulings two JNA officers in connection with the massacre , and also tried former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević for a number of war crimes , including those committed at Vukovar .

Milošević died in prison before his trial could be completed Process_end .

Following Bosnia and Herzegovina 's declaration Expressing_publicly of independence ( which gained international recognition ) , the Bosnian Serbs , led by Radovan Karadžić and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević and the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , mobilised Arranging their forces inside Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure Getting ethnic Serb territory , then war soon spread Dispersal across the country , accompanied by ethnic cleansing .