Mitrović, Petar

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Year of the incident: 
1995
Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mitrović, Petar
Role: 
Member of the 3rd Skelani Platoon (2nd Šekovići Special Police Detachment, Army of Republika Srpska)
Convicted of: 
Genocide, by means of killing members of a group (accessory).
Factual basis: 
Mitrović participated in capturing and killing a large number of Bosniak men who, after the fall of the Safe Area of Srebrenica and its complete occupation by forces of the Army of Republika Srpska, endeavoured to leave the protected zone of Srebrenica, which many of them did as they were promised that they would be interrogated and exchanged, yet their personal papers and other personal belongings were seized, they were left without food, water and medical assistance even though many of them were seriously wounded. At the same time witnessing that the remaining Bosniak civilian population, about 25,000 mainly women and children were transported by trucks outside the Safe Zone of Srebrenica, on 13 July 1995, Mitrović escorted a column of the captured Bosniak men to the warehouse of the Farming Co-operative Kravica and, together with other captured Bosniak men who had been bussed to the warehouse, more than one thousand men, imprisoned them in the warehouse of the farming co-operative and killed them in the early evening hours by shooting at the Bosniak civilians from an automatic rifle.

First Instance Verdict

Date: 
29/07/2008
Court: 
Court of BiH, Criminal Division
Note: 
Sentenced to 38 years of long-term imprisonment.

Second Instance Verdict

Date: 
22/01/2014
Court: 
Court of BiH, Appellate Division
Note: 
Sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment (On 22 October 2013 the Constitutional Court of BiH quashed the Second instance verdict of 7 September 2009 (Court of BiH, Appellate Division) by which the defendant was sentenced to long-term imprisonment - 28 years)