Ljubiša Beara

Ljubiša Beara ( Serbian - Cyrillic Љубиша Беара ; born July 14, 1939 in Sarajevo , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † February 8, 2017 in Berlin ) was a Bosnian-Serb colonel and convicted war criminal . During the Bosnian War , he was Chief of Security of the General Staff of the Army of the Republika Srpska at the time of the attack by Bosnian Serb troops in July 1995 on the Srebrenica enclave and the ensuing Srebrenica massacre . He was also responsible for the Bosniak prisoners of Srebrenica from July 11, 1995 to November 1, 1995.

Ljubiša Beara was charged with involvement in a criminal enterprise and was on trial at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague . He and his co-defendants were charged with evicting women and children from the Srebrenica enclave to Kladanj on July 12 and 13, 1995 , as well as thousands of men and boys aged 16 and over , under the leadership of General Ratko Mladić , the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops up to 60 years of age in a period from July 12 to around July 19, 1995, and to have executed and buried out of court by firing squads.

According to the indictment, Beara was allegedly involved in the beheading of 80 to 100 Bosniaks in Potočari on July 12, 1995. “Ljubiša Beara wanted to destroy the Muslim part of Bosnia as part of a national, ethnic or religious group between July 11, 1995 and November 1, 1995,” which, according to the indictment, can be classified as genocide .

Ljubiša Beara was tried on March 26, 2002 in the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. On October 10, 2004, he was transferred to the tribunal after surrendering the day before. His criminal trial began on August 21, 2006. As a result of his involvement in the Srebrenica massacre, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 10, 2010 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity . This judgment was upheld on appeal on January 30, 2015. He died on February 8, 2017 in a Berlin prison.

literature

• Ivica Đikić: Beara. Documentary roman o srebreničkom genocidu. Naklada Ljevak / Synopsis, Zagreb / ​​Sarajevo 2016.

Web links

• Profiles: Ljubisa Beara. Trial Watch , archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on February 10, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Case Information Sheet - “Srebrenica” (IT-05-88) Popovič et al. (pdf; 588 kB) International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia , August 2, 2016, accessed on February 10, 2017 (English). 
2. ^ Bosnian Serb convicted of genocide in Srebrenica dies. ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The McClatchy Company , DC Bureau, February 10, 2017, accessed February 10, 2017.