Zdravko Tolimir

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Zdravko Tolimir

Zdravko Tolimir (born February 27, 1948 in Glamoč ; † February 9, 2016 in The Hague , Netherlands ) was an officer in the army of the Bosnian Serbs , convicted war criminal and in the Bosnian War as one of seven deputies of the military chief of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladić , responsible for the intelligence service .

After the end of the war he went into hiding. According to the Serbian broadcaster B92 , Tolimir was caught on May 31, 2007 on Bosnian soil. Police officers from Serbia and the Republika Srpska were involved in the arrest . He was arrested while trying to cross the border into Serbia.

On February 10, 2005, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague brought charges against him. He is accused of having participated in the Srebrenica massacre after the capture of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb troops in 1995 . A unit under his control was charged with the murder of more than 1,700 men and young people on the Branjevo estate and in a cultural center in the village of Pilići. According to the verdict, he “played an active role in planning the murder of almost 8,000 predominantly Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.” Shortly before the trial began, the charges were expanded. The new allegations related to the shooting of 39 residents of Srebrenica in the village of Bisina near Zvornik on July 23, 1995 and of nine residents of Žepa two days later.

The trial of Tolimir in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia began on February 26, 2010. On December 12, 2012, he was convicted of genocide and sentenced to life in prison. On April 8, 2015, the Appeals Chamber of the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague upheld the judgment of the first instance.

Web links

Commons : Zdravko Tolimir  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ US Department of State : At Large Persons Publicly Indicted for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (Page 5 of 5) ( Memento of January 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), September 8, 2005
  2. ↑ Zdravko Tolimir. ( Memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) TRIAL Watch , June 1, 2007.
  3. ↑ Serbian war criminal Tolimir dies in custody. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , February 9, 2016, accessed February 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Key was crimes fugitive arrested on Serbia-Bosnia border. International Herald Tribune , May 31, 2007.
  5. ^ Charges against Zdravko Tolimir released to the public. In: Press Release , United Nations - International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, February 25, 2005.
  6. ^ Srebrenica massacre: Mladic deputy Tolimir has to go to prison for life , Spiegel Online , April 8, 2015, accessed on February 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b The Hague: Trial of Mladic confidants started Die Presse, February 26, 2010.
  8. ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/bosnian-serb-officer-convicted-of-genocide-in-srebrenica-massacre/article6230293/ (link not available)
  9. ↑ See the report at Spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Tolimir, Zdravko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian officer of the Bosnian Serbs and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Glamoč
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2016
Place of death The Hague , Netherlands