Many captured Croatian soldiers and civilians were summarily executed after the battle . Journalists witnessed one such killing in Vukovar 's main street . They also reported seeing the streets strewn with bodies in civilian attire . BBC television reporters recorded Serbian paramilitaries chanting : " '' Slobodane , Slobodane , šalji nam salate , biće mesa , biće mesa , klaćemo Hrvate ! '' " ( " Slobodan Milošević , Slobodan , send us some salad , for there will be meat , there will be meat , we will slaughter Croats " ) . A Serbian journalist embedded with the JNA reserve forces in Vukovar later reported : Around 400 people from Vukovar 's hospital – non-Serb patients , medical personnel , local political figures and others who had taken refuge there – were taken by the JNA . Although some were subsequently released , around 200 were transported to the nearby Ovčara farm and executed in what became known as the Vukovar massacre . At least 50 others were taken elsewhere and never seen again . Thousands more were transferred to prison camps in Serbia and rebel-controlled Croatia . Further mass killings followed ; at Dalj , north of Vukovar , where many inhabitants were previously massacred , numerous prisoners from Vukovar were subjected to harsh interrogations , beatings and torture , and at least 35 were killed . The JNA imprisoned 2,000 people at the Velepromet industrial facility in Vukovar , 800 of whom were classified by the JNA as prisoners of war . Many were brutally interrogated , several were shot on the spot by TO members and paramilitaries , and others were sent to Ovčara , where they were killed in the massacre . The remaining prisoners were transferred to a JNA-run prison camp in Sremska Mitrovica . They were stripped naked on arrival , beaten and interrogated , and forced to sleep for weeks on bare wooden floors . Most were released in January 1992 under an agreement brokered by UN envoy Cyrus Vance . Others were kept prisoner until mid-1992 . Serbs who fought on the Croatian side were regarded as traitors by their captors and treated particularly harshly , enduring savage beatings
Vukovar massacre
Vukovar massacre
Battle of Vukovar