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Year of the incident:
1995
Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jević, Duško
Outcome:
Role:
Assistant Commander of the Special Brigade of the Ministry of Interior of RS and the Commander of the Jahorina Training Centre of the Special Police Brigade
Convicted of:
Genocide by killing, forcibly transferring, and causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the target group (aiding and abetting).
Factual basis:
Between 12 and 19 July 1995 Duško Jević aided members of a joint criminal enterprise, including senior officers of the Army of Republika Srpska and civilian leadership of Republika Srpska, who acted with the intention to exterminate in part the Bosniak population by forcibly transferring around 40,000 women, children and elderly men and by summarily executing between 7,000 to 8,000 men. Aware that the forcible transfer of population was being carried out and that Bosniak men would be summarily executed, Jević, together with Mendeljev Đurić, ordered members of the 1st Company to take part in the forcible transfer of Bosniak civilians from Potočari, the separation of able-bodied men, their incarceration and detention in the so-called ‘White House (Bijela kuća)’, and the subsequent mass killing of the captured men in the ‘Kravica’ Farming Cooperative warehouse.
First Instance Verdict
Date:
25/05/2012
Court:
Court of BiH, Criminal Division
Note:
Sentenced to 35 years of long-term imprisonment.
Second Instance Verdict
Date:
20/05/2013
Court:
Court of BiH, Appellate Division
Note:
Sentence reduced to 32 years of long-term imprisonment.
Đurić, Mendeljev
Outcome:
Role:
Commander of the 1st Company in the Jahorina Training Centre, Ministry of Interior of RS
Convicted of:
Genocide by killing, forcibly transferring, and causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the target group (aiding and abetting).
Factual basis:
Between 12 and 19 July 1995 Mendeljev Đurić, aided members of a joint criminal enterprise, including senior officers of the Army of Republika Srpska and civilian leadership of Republika Srpska, who acted with the intention to exterminate in part the Bosniak population by forcibly transferring around 40,000 women, children and elderly men and by summarily executing between 7,000 to 8,000 men. Aware that the forcible transfer of population was being carried out and that Bosniak men would be summarily executed, Đurić, together with Duško Jević, ordered members of the 1st Company to take part in the forcible transfer of Bosniak civilians from Potočari, the separation of able-bodied men, their incarceration and detention in the so-called ‘White House (Bijela kuća)’, and the subsequent mass killing of the captured men in the ‘Kravica’ Farming Cooperative warehouse.
First Instance Verdict
Date:
25/05/2012
Court:
Court of BiH, Criminal Division
Note:
Sentenced to 30 years of long-term imprisonment.
Second Instance Verdict
Date:
20/05/2013
Court:
Court of BiH, Appellate Division
Note:
Sentence reduced to 28 years of long-term imprisonment.
Marković, Goran
Outcome:
Role:
Commander of the 2nd Platoon of the 1st Company of the Jahorina Training Centre, Ministry of Interior of RS
Acquitted of:
Goran Marković was acquitted of charges of genocide allegedly committed by killing, forcibly transferring, and causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the target group (aiding and abetting).
First Instance Verdict
Date:
25/05/2012
Court:
Court of BiH, Criminal Division
Note:
Acquitted of all charges.
Second Instance Verdict
Date:
20/05/2013
Court:
Court of BiH, Appellate Division
Note:
First instance verdict upheld.
Ikonić, Neđo
Outcome:
Role:
Commander of the 2nd Company in the Jahorina Training Centre, Ministry of Interior of RS
Acquitted of:
Neđo Ikonić was acquitted of charges of genocide allegedly committed by killing, forcibly transferring, and causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the target group (aiding and abetting).
First Instance Verdict
Date:
25/05/2012
Court:
Court of BiH, Criminal Division
Note:
Acquitted of all charges.
Second Instance Verdict
Date:
20/05/2013
Court:
Court of BiH, Appellate Division
Note:
First instance verdict upheld.