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| |  | | Mitar Rasevic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Bosnia Herzegovina | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to a term of eight years in jail on 28th February 2008 by a trial chamber of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the appeal is underway. | | position : | Former prison guard commander at Foča Prison, also known as Kazneno Popravni (KP) Dom (House of Criminal Rehabilitation). |
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| | | | Mitar Rašević was born on 15th November 1949 in the village of Cagust (Čagošta) in the municipality of Foča in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He taught sociology. Before, during and after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he served as prison guard commander in KP Dom, 35 miles to the south-east of Sarajevo, near the border with Montenegro.
From the beginning of April 1992 until mid-July 1992, Serb military forces took control and occupied the town of Foča and the surrounding villages. The Serbian authorities arrested Muslim villagers and separated men and women. Thousands of Muslim men and non-Serbs were illegally detained in KP Dom from April 1992 to October 1994, which, according to the indictment, had all the characteristics of a detention camp. Most of the 760 detainees were Muslim civilians between 16 and 80 years of age, including the mentally and physically disabled and people with serious illnesses, and were not accused of any crime.
Mitar Raševic held the post of commander of the KP Dom guards before the war, and until October 1994. His main duty was the supervision of at least 37 prison guards and he was also in charge of detentions in solitary confinement cells. He allegedly took part in the establishment and operation of a system of punishment and abuse of detainees. Mitar Raševic allegedly ordered the guards and both military and civil police officers to question detainees on possible weapons caches, permitting the use of force.
Between 18th April 1992 and 31st October 1994, Mitar Raševic helped to promote and maintain deplorable living conditions for detainees and he participated in the formation of a system of forced labour. Between June 1992 and March 1993, at least two hundred detainees were deported and moved to unknown locations.
Mitar Rašević was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 15August 2003. | |     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 : | | | 15.11.1949 | | | also known as : | | | Micó | | | last time seen : | | | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | | | period of charges : | | | 04.1992 - 10.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 06.04.2007 - 28.02.2008 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 02.04.2008 |
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