Goran Jelisić

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Goran Jelisić (in police uniform) murdered a defenseless Muslim man on the street in Brčko with a shot in the head from a submachine gun (May 6 or 7, 1992).

Goran Jelisić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Горан Јелисић ; born June 7, 1968 in Bijeljina , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , SFR Yugoslavia ) is the former Bosnian-Serb commander of the Luka camp in Brčko and a convicted war criminal . Jelisić referred to himself as "Serbian Adolf " and advocated the creation of "a clean territory for the Serbian people " and the elimination of Muslims (Bosniaks) in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Life

Career

Goran Jelisić is the second child of the accountant Aleksandar Jelisić and his wife Ivanka († June 4, 2004). He grew up and lived in his native city of Bijeljina. He was a tractor driver and often changed jobs. After serving in the Yugoslav People's Army , he was imprisoned in 1990 for fraud and forgery and sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 1991. During his appeal process, Jelisić was released pending a final decision and was no longer imprisoned due to the outbreak of the Bosnian War in spring 1992.

Bosnian War

During the Bosnian War, Brčko was in a strategically important position that linked the Bosnian-Serbian areas in western Bosnia around Banja Luka with eastern Herzegovina around Pale , the new capital of the Republika Srpska . At the start of the war in May 1992, the Serbs attacked local Muslims and Croats . Around 2,000 people were murdered, over 90 percent of the non-Serbian population were displaced, and many were interned in camps .

The Luka camp in the port of Brčko was under the command of Jelisić from May 7-28, 1992, who was a member of the Serb-controlled police . Jelisić created an atmosphere of terror by killing, abusing and threatening inmates, subjecting them to extreme psychological trauma , degradation and fear of physical injury and death . He stole money, watches, jewelry, etc. from newly arrived prisoners and murdered those prisoners who did not give up their valuables voluntarily. For example, Jelisić forced detainees to sing patriotic Serbian songs and if they sang incorrectly, they were beaten and executed. Jelisić shot a Muslim after he had beaten him up on the grounds that he did not want to continue to get his hands dirty on a " balija ". Prisoners had to lay their heads on a drain grate before Jelisić murdered them with a headshot.

He is believed to be responsible for the "extermination" of over 100 Muslim men and the rape of Muslim women whom he considered "dirty". His lust for murder was so extreme that he was replaced as camp commandant by the Bosnian Serb authorities.

Jelisić was arrested by SFOR in Bijeljina in 1998, found guilty of 31 war crimes and crimes against humanity on October 19, 1999 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and sentenced to 40 years in prison on December 14, 1999. The court chamber pointed to the repulsive, bestial and sadistic nature of Jelisić's behavior and stated that his cold-blooded murders and mistreatment of people show a deep contempt for humanity and the right to life . Jelisić has been serving prison in Italy since 2003 . His accomplice Ranko Češić was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

family

Jelisić married in September 1995. His wife Ana gave birth to their son Aleksandar in October 1995.

Fonts

  • Humans and monsters: the odyssey of a young Serbian officer during the war in Yugoslavia . 1st edition. Zambon Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-88975-239-0 .

literature

  • Erwin Koch: murderer for two weeks . In: THE TIME . No. 49/2004 , November 25, 2004 ( zeit.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman M. Naimark: Flaming Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century . CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-89331-960-2 , Bosnia, p. 207 f .
  2. ^ Tribunal Update, 143, 13.-18. September 1999.
  3. ↑ ICTY: Indictment. Retrieved on August 19, 2018 : “41. From about 7 May to about 28 May 1992, Goran JELISIC, acting as the commander of Luka, created an atmosphere of terror by killing, abusing and threatening the detainees, thereby subjecting them to extreme psychological trauma, degradation and fear of bodily injury and death . "
  4. ↑ ICTY, G. Jelisić, Judgment, 1999, Rn. 75.
  5. ^ Tribunal Update, 143, 6-12. September 1999.
  6. ↑ ICTY Case information sheet, p. 5 (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Jelisić, Goran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Горан Јелисић (Serbian-Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Serbian camp commandant and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH 7th June 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bijeljina