Veselin Šljivančanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Веселин Шљиванчанин; born 13 June 1953) is a former Montenegrin Serb officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) who participated in the Battle of Vukovar and was subsequently convicted on a war crimes indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his role in the Vukovar massacre.

After the fall of Vukovar, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was placed in command of a brigade of JNA stationed at Podgorica (then still known as Titograd), Montenegro.

[4] Šljivančanin was indicted in 1995,[5] along with Mile Mrkšić, Miroslav Radić and Slavko Dokmanović, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

The indictment accused him of "responsibility for the mass killing at Ovčara, near Vukovar, of approximately 260 captive non-Serb men", on the following grounds: He was arrested in Belgrade by Serbian authorities on 13 June 2003,[6] as part of the new policy of Serbia and Montenegro in which they agreed to comply with the UN and the ICTY.

[8] The BBC World Service interviewed one of the paramedics who was on duty at Vukovar's hospital, who said "if you stole a car today you would get a harsher sentence than what they got for the biggest crime that was committed here in the past 50 years".