Milan Lukic

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Milan Lukić in the courtroom of the ICTY (2009)

Milan Lukić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Милан Лукић ; born September 6, 1967 in Foča , Yugoslavia , now Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a former commander of the Serbian paramilitary unit Beli Orlovi (White Eagle) in the Republika Srpska and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Milan Lukić (probably in the 1990s)

At times he lived in Germany, Switzerland and Serbia before he came to Višegrad in 1992 . There he was involved in several war crimes during the Bosnian War, including the murder of 142 Bosniak residents who were locked in houses before they were set on fire or blown up.

On October 22, 1992, paramilitaries under his command in Mioče kidnapped 16 Serbian citizens of Muslim faith from Sjeverin who were on their way from their hometown to Priboj by bus . These were later murdered in the Hotel Vilina Vlas near Višegrad . On February 27, 1993, 19  Bosniaks were kidnapped by Lukić's paramilitaries in the nearby Štrpci train station , who were later tortured and murdered under his command in Vilina Vlas .

He was arrested on August 8, 2005 in Buenos Aires and extradited to The Hague on February 21, 2006 . After a year-long trial, he was found guilty on July 20, 2009 and sentenced to life in prison . Judge Patrick Robinson said that Lukić killed "with extreme cruelty and cold-bloodedness".

Web links

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  1. ↑ www.trial-ch.org - Trial Watch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.trial-ch.org  
  2. ↑ A river as a mass grave . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on January 2, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Omerovic, Elvedina. 2003. "Terrorism, Violence and Organized Crime in Sandzak", pp. 44-49 in Crushing Crime in South East Europe: A Struggle of Domestic, Regional and European Dimensions ed. by Predrag Jureković & Frédéric Labarre. Vienna: Federal Army, p. 44.
  4. ↑ Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade (2006): "Thirteen Years since Kidnapping in Strpci Occurred", < http://cm.greekhelsinki.gr/index.php?cid=1819&sec=194 ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2008 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. >, last accessed on February 18, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cm.greekhelsinki.gr
  5. ↑ Igor Jovanović: ICTY indictee Milan Lukic Arrested in Argentina , Southeast European Times 10 August, 2005
  6. ↑ time online
personal data
SURNAME Lukic, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian leader of the Republika Srpska paramilitary forces and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Foča , Yugoslavia , now Bosnia and Herzegovina