Vujadin Popović

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Vujadin Popović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Вујадин Поповић ; born March 14, 1957 in Popovići, Yugoslavia ) was lieutenant colonel in the army of the Bosnian Serbs and as such a security officer of the Drina Corps during the Bosnian War . He was involved in the Srebrenica massacre and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2010 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague .

accusation

The International Criminal Court brought charges against Popović on March 26, 2002, which were published on October 21. Popović has been charged with genocide , crimes against humanity (extermination, murder , persecution and abduction ) and war crimes. As a result, the Serbian police started the investigation in December 2002.

On April 14, 2005 he was extradited to the Netherlands and transferred to the United Nations Detention Unit . On April 18, 2005, he announced that he would plead "not guilty".

According to Momir Nikolić, Popović met with him and Svetozar Kosorić on July 12 to discuss the transport of the women and children from Potočari and the procedure for the murder of the Muslim Bosniaks who remained in the area .

On June 10, 2010, he was sentenced to life in prison by the ICTY for genocide , mass extermination, murder and persecution. The court found that on the day of the Potočari massacre he was present in almost every scene and that he was fully informed about the mass murders. The court saw as proven that it was the aim of those involved to murder as many Muslim Bosniaks as possible and that Popović was significantly involved.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Popović, Vujadin . The Hague Justice Portal, 2006.
  2. ↑ Drago Nikolic, Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara: Indictments Unsealed for their Alleged Participation in Crimes Committed after the take-over of the Srebrenica Enclave . ICTY press release of October 21, 2002.
  3. ^ Friedrich Jäger: The International Tribunal on War Crimes in Former Yugoslavia . LIT Verlag Münster, 2005, ISBN 9783825884000 , p. 40.
  4. ^ Vujadin Popovic Transferred to ICTY Detention Unit . ICTY press release of April 14, 2005.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Trahan, Human Rights Watch: Genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity . Human Rights Watch, 2006, ISBN 9781564323392 , pp. 343f.
  6. ↑ Popović et al. (PDF; 289 kB) Report from the International Criminal Court.
  7. ^ Ian Traynor: Bosnian Serbs convicted of Srebrenica genocide . Guardian article dated June 10, 2010.
  8. ^ UN Criminal Court in The Hague. Life imprisonment for massacre in Srebrenica ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Life for Bosnian Serbs over genocide at Srebrenica . BBC report dated June 10, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Popović, Vujadin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Поповић, Вујадин (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian officer involved in the Srebrenica massacre
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Popovići , Yugoslavia