Goran Hadžić

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Goran Hadžić (1992)

Goran Hadžić ( Cyrillic  Горан Хаџић ; born September 7, 1958 in Vinkovci ; † July 12, 2016 in Novi Sad ) was a Serbian politician from Croatia and a war criminal convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia .

From 1992 onwards he was president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina for almost two years , which comprised around a third of Croatian territory during the Croatian War from 1991 to 1995.

In June 2004, Goran Hadžić was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia . The allegations include murder, torture, looting and the willful destruction of villages between August 1991 and June 1992. In July 2011 he was arrested in Serbia.

Role in the Croatian war

Before his political career, Goran Hadžić worked as a warehouse worker. Initially he was involved in the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia in Vukovar . He later moved to Srpska Demokratska Stranka (SDS).

On February 26, 1992 Hadžić was elected President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina. He held this post until January 1994.

After the war he first fled to Serbia , where he lived in a villa in Novi Sad, until he was charged by the ICTY on June 4, 2004 with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Hours after the warrant was issued, he escaped arrest by fleeing. In October 2010, the Serbian government increased the reward for information about Hadžić's whereabouts to 250,000 euros.

As the last of the 161 suspected war criminals charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Hadžić was arrested on July 20, 2011 in Fruška Gora near the village of Krušedol and transferred to the ICTY two days later, on July 22, 2011. He died of a brain tumor in Novi Sad on July 12, 2016 at the age of 57. Since April 2015, he had been provisionally released from custody due to his health.

Web links

  • Goran Hadžić Case on the website of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Преминуо Горан Хаџић . Politika (Политика) , July 12, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 (Serbian).
  2. ↑ www.tportal.hr , Hadžić osuđen na osam godina zbog zločina u Tenji, Hadžića je također u odsutnosti 1995. Šibenski županijski sud osudio na 20 godina zatvora zbog prekomjernog granatiranja. 1992. , HINA, objavljeno 20. srpnja 2011., pristupljeno 16. prosinca 2012.
  3. ↑ narod.hr , "Tko je Goran Hadžić kojeg je za zločine Hrvatska osudila u odsutnosti?", Objavljeno 14. travnja 2015., pristupljeno 7. studenoga 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Case information sheet. (It-04-75) Goran Hadžić. (PDF; 92 kB) International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, November 12, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  5. ^ Norman L. Cigar, Paul Williams: Indictment at the Hague: The Milosevic Regime and Crimes of the Balkan Wars . New York University Press , New York / London, 2002, ISBN 0-8147-1626-1 , p. 294 (English).
  6. ^ The daily newspaper (ed.): Del Ponte angry with Serbia . July 20, 2004, p. 11 .
  7. ↑ Serbia tenfold reward for capture of Mladic. NZZ Online , October 28, 2010, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Hadžić krenuo po novac od jataka. B92 , July 20, 2011, accessed July 13, 2016 (Bosnian).
  9. ↑ Last wanted war criminal arrested. APA article in Der Standard , July 20, 2011, accessed July 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hadžić, Goran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinkovci
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2016
Place of death Novi Sad