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Sat 09 Sep 2007Croat fury at mild penalties for massacreCroatia:Croatia reacted with fury yesterday to the verdicts handed down to three Serbs charged over the massacre of more than 260 Croats at Vukovar in 1991.The United Nations court at The Hague on Thursday sentenced former Yugoslav army officer Mile Mrksic to 20 years in prison for allowing the killings to take place. Another ex-officer, Veselin Sljivancanin, was given a five-year term for torture but was acquitted of more serious charges while a third, Miroslav Radic, was cleared on all counts.