Jadranko Prlić

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Jadranko Prlić (2013)

Jadranko Prlić ( jâdraːŋko př̩ːlit͡ɕ ; born June 10, 1959 in Đakovo , SR Croatia , SFRY Yugoslavia ) is a former Bosnian-Croatian politician. Prlić was Prime Minister of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna from 1993 to 1993 . From 1994 to 1996 he was Minister of Defense of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and from 1996 to 2001 the first Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

In May 2013 he was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY ) to a 25-year prison term for war crimes committed against Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) during the Croatian-Bosniak War . On November 29, 2017, the ICTY Appeals Chamber confirmed almost all convictions against Petković and his co-defendants, as well as their original prison term.

Life

Around 1975 he joined the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia , and in 1987 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo. He completed all professorships before becoming a full professor. In 1988 he became Mayor of Mostar and in 1989 Vice President of the State Executive Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the 1990 elections he was the incumbent President of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In early March 1992 he traveled to the USA to study the American approach to the market economy. On his return to Mostar, the city was besieged and Prlić joined the Croatian Defense Council and took an active part in the war.

accusation

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia accused Prlić of having almost complete power and control over the government of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna as the leading politician of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) in the early 1990s . Hence, as the leader of the HVO government, he had the power to suspend military civilian commanders who had participated in crimes against humanity. He had the power to close the HVO internment camps.

The charges were:

  • nine cases of serious violations of the Geneva Conventions (willful killing; inhuman treatment (sexual assault); illegal deportation of civilians; illegal transfer of civilians; illegal detention of civilians; inhuman treatment (conditions of detention); inhuman treatment; willful destruction of property that is not was justified by military necessity; willful appropriation of property that was not justified by military necessity).
  • nine cases of violations of the laws or customs of war (cruel treatment (conditions of detention), illegal work, willful destruction of cities or villages that was not justified by military necessity, destruction or willful damage to institutions of religion or education, looting of public or private property, unlawful attack on civilians, unlawful causing terrorism against civilians, cruel treatment)
  • eight cases of crimes against humanity (persecution on political, racial and religious grounds; murder; rape; deportation; inhuman acts (forced relocation); imprisonment; inhuman acts (conditions of detention)).

On May 29, 2013, the ICTY sentenced Prlić in a first-instance judgment to 25 years in prison . The tribunal also sentenced five other war criminals in the joint trial: the Defense Minister of Herzcg-Bosnia ( Bruno Stojić ) (20 years), the military officers Slobodan Praljak (20 years) and Milivoj Petković . (20 years), the military police commander Valentin Ćorić (16 years) and the head of the prisoner exchange and detention center Berislav Pušić (10 years). The court concluded that "for the most part" the crimes committed were not the accidental acts of a few recalcitrant soldiers. On the contrary, these crimes were the result of a plan aimed at eliminating the Muslim population from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On November 29, 2017, the ICTY Appeals Chamber confirmed almost all convictions against Prlic and his co-defendants as well as their length of imprisonment.

Web links

Commons : Jadranko Prlić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ICTY renders its final judgment in the Prlić et al. appeal case . November 29, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jadranko Prlic profile . Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ ICTY Initial Indictment Prlic et al. - THE JOINT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE . Icty.org. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Taken from the UN press release
  5. ^ Six Senior Herceg-Bosna Officials Convicted . In: icty.org . May 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ The ICTY renders its final judgment in the Prlić et al. appeal case . November 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Prlić, Jadranko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Croatian politician and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Đakovo