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| |  | | Dragan Jokic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 9 years imprisonment by the Trial Chamber I on 17 January 2005; sentence confirmed on appeal on 9 May 2007; transferred to Austria on 22 December 2008 | | position : | Chief of the Corps of Engineers, Zvornik Brigade |
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| | | | Dragan Jokic was born on 20 August 1957 in the municipality of Zvornik. In July 1995, he was the Chief of the Corps of Engineers in the Zvornik Brigade, with the rank of Commander. Furthermore, from the morning of 14 July until that of 15 July 1995, Dragan Jokic was the officer on duty in the Zvornik Brigade.
The acts for which he was indicted related to all of the crimes which were committed against Bosnian Muslims after the fall of the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995.
On the morning of 14 July, a convoy of around thirty buses transporting Bosnian Muslims left Bratunac for Zvornik. The men were driven to various detention centres in the Zvornik municipality, including the schools in Grbavci, Petkovci and Pilica. Sometime between 14 and 16 July, they were blindfolded before being put on board buses and taken to nearby fields. Here, terrorised and defenceless, they were executed group after group. The surrounding areas of Orahovac, the Petkovci dam and the military farmhouse of Branjevo were turned into true killing fields, strewn with dead bodies.
Approximately 500 male Bosnian Muslims were also executed on 16 July in the Pilica cultural centre where they were being detained. Trucks for loading the bodies and digging equipment were already on site at the time of the executions, or arrived soon afterwards, to bury the dead in mass graves. The Engineering Corps from Zvornik on a repeated basis provided the equipment and drivers to participate in the burial operations.
It was considered by the Trial Chamber that there was sufficient elements of proof against Dragan Jokic since he knew that Bosnian Muslims were being held in the Grbavci school in Orahovac and also in those of Pilica and Kozluk. In addition, the sending of heavy earthwork materiel and drivers with excavators to prepare the mass graves to the place where the executions were underway or had just ended, was also proof that Dragan Jokic knew that killings had been carried out on a large scale.
Commander Jokic, in his position as Chief of the Engineering Corps of the Zvornik Brigade, was therefore charged with having participated in the planning, supervision, organisation and finally the burials which followed the campaign of murder and, as the Brigade Officer on duty, with having participated in the coordination of the communications between the Officers and Commanders of the Srpska Republica Army (VRS) concerning the transportation, detention, execution and burial of the Srebrenica Muslims and to have written or otherwise transmitted reports and regular updates to his superiors concerning the progress of the operation underway.
Jokic voluntarily surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 15 August 2001. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Bosnia and herzegovina | | | date of birth : | | | 20.08.1957 | | | last time seen : | | | Austria | | | period of charges : | | | 14.07.1995 - 17.07.1995 | | | judgement period : | | | 21.08.2001 - 17.01.2005 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 02.03.2010 |
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