Duško Tadić

Duško Tadić (born October 1, 1955 in Kozarac , Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian - Serb politician and convicted war criminal .

Duško Tadić became a member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) in 1990 .

Dusko Tadic was in 1997 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia convicted, during the Bosnian war as a board member of the SDS in the majority of Bosniaks inhabited city Kozarac and as a member of the paramilitary forces, the regular units of the 1st Krajina supported -Corps in the attack, to have actively participated in all phases of the attack on the city. The murder of two Bosniak police officers in Kozarac is the most serious crime personally committed by Duško Tadić. Tadić was also accused of participating in attacks in the camps, particularly in the Omarska camp .

Of the original 50,000 Bosniaks and 6,000 Croats in the Prijedor district , around 6,000 and 3,000 respectively remained after the expulsions and killings.

After the completion of the ethnic cleansing, Tadić became a bearer of political responsibility in the city of Kozarac. On August 15, 1992 he was elected President of the local section of the SDS.

In June 1993 he was drafted for military service and sent to the war zone near Gradačac . He fled from there after just a day and led a secret life for two months to avoid confiscation.

In August 1993 Tadić traveled to Nuremberg , later to Munich , where he lived until he was arrested by the German police on February 12, 1994. On April 24, 1995, he was (Yugoslavia Tribunal) in to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The Hague convicted and served as the first occupant of the United Nations Detention Facility , the detention center of the Court.

Duško Tadić was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, most of which he served in Germany. Due to the decision to reject his appeal on January 26, 2000, Tadić could not be released before July 27, 2007 (after serving two thirds of the sentence). On July 18, 2008, Tadić was released early.

Web links

• The hatred of Dusan Tadic . Die Zeit, 36/1997
• Dusko Tadic sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment . ICTY press release, July 14, 1997

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Case Information Sheet of the ICTY (PDF; 201 kB)