It is a desolate stretch of land where the Vukovar agricultural conglomerate built cattle-raising facilities after World War II.

Some of the Serb forces were led by Željko Ražnatović — also known as "Arkan" — who directed much of the pillaging and murder that occurred in Vukovar during and after the siege.

When they came out of the buses, they had to run between two rows of Serbian soldiers and other forces, who beat them with rifle butts, clubs and other blunt weapons.

They gathered the wounded fighters, civilians and hospital staff, put them in buses and transported them to Ovčara.

The prisoners were brought together, massacred, executed by firearms, thrown in a trench and covered by earth.