Radoslav Brđanin

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Radoslav Brđanin ( Serbian - Cyrillic Радослав Брђанин , outside the Serbo-Croatian- speaking area also written Radoslav Brdjanin ; born February 9, 1948 in Čelinac , Bosnia and Herzegovina ), is a former politician ( SDS ) of the Serbian population in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a convicted war criminal .

Before the breakup of Yugoslavia

Until the fall of Yugoslavia , he worked as an engineer and was active in real estate trading until 1990 . In 1991 he became vice-president of the regional municipal assemblies of Bosanska and Krajina , based in Banja Luka , in north-western Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is predominantly inhabited by Serbs.

Role in the Bosnian war

During the Bosnian war , Brđanin, under the influence of Radovan Karadžić , became the president of the crisis team of the internationally unrecognized "Autonomous Region Krajina" , which later became part of the Republika Srpska .

In addition, he took on a leading role in the planned establishment of an "ethnically pure" state in Bosnia-Herzegovina and signed orders to the members of the crisis teams in the communities. Several members of these crisis teams were involved in war crimes against Bosniaks and Croats , as well as in the destruction of the Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka.

On July 6, 1999, he was arrested by SFOR troops and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague .

Criminal proceedings

On July 12, 1999, represented by Defense Attorney John Ackerman , he pleaded "not guilty" on all charges .

On September 1, 2004, he was sentenced to 32 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity , serious violation of the Geneva Conventions , torture , willful death and willful destruction or willful damage to religious institutions, among other things . He appealed on September 22, 2004 .

Since the Appeals Chamber found the allegations of torture and willful destruction or deliberate damage to religious institutions to be insufficiently proven, it reduced the prison sentence to 30 years on April 3, 2007.

present

Since March 4, 2007, Brđanin has been serving his sentence in a prison in Denmark .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Radoslav Brdjanin: Facts ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the 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. at TRIAL Watch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trial-ch.org
  2. ↑ 5th expanded indictment of the Hague War Crimes Tribunal
  3. ↑ a b Radoslav Brdjanin: Procedure  ( 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. , Trial Watch@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.trial-ch.org  
  4. ↑ Press release of the Hague War Crimes Tribunal of April 3, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Brđanin, Radoslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brdjanin, Radoslaw; Брђанин, Радослав (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician, convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Čelinac