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| |  | | Radovan Stankovic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Bosnia Herzegovina | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Transferred from the ICTY to the State Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina on 29 September 2005; sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment on 14 November 2006; sentence increased to 20 years by the Appeals Chamber on 28 March 2007; escaped from custody on 25 May 2007 | | position : | Member of an elite Serb paramilitary unit |
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| | | | Radovan Stankovic (alias “Rasa”) was born on 10 March 1969 in the village of Trebica in the municipality of Foca, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Indictment alleges that on 8 April 1992, Serb forces launched a first military attack against the non-Serb population of the town of Foca. The take-over of the town was complete by 16 or 17 April 1992 and the surrounding villages continued to be under siege until mid-July 1992. Once towns and villages were securely in their control, Serb military, police, paramilitary and sometimes Serb villagers started ransacking or burning Muslim houses and apartments and rounding up and capturing Muslims. The Indictment goes on to allege that some Muslims were beaten or killed in the process.
The Indictment further alleges that Serb forces separated the non-Serb men from the women. The Foca Kazneno-Popravni Dom (“KP Dom”) was the primary detention facility for men in Foca. Muslim women, children and the elderly were detained in houses, apartments and motels in the town of Foca or in surrounding villages. There were also detainees at short and long-term detention centres such as Buk Bijela, Foca High School and Partizan Sports Hall. It is alleged that that the women and girls had to live in intolerably unhygienic conditions and that they were mistreated in many ways including, for many of them, being raped repeatedly.
According to the Indictment, some women and girls were taken out of the larger detention centres to privately owned apartments, such as ulica Osmana Djikica 16, Karaman’s house, or the house in Trnovace. They were forced to cook, clean and serve the residents, who were Serb soldiers. These women and girls were also subjected to repeated sexual assaults.
Moreover, Radovan Stankovic was a soldier in the Miljevina Battalion of the Foca Tactical Brigade. The Miljevina Battalion was commanded by Pero Elez during the times relevant to the Indictment.
Radovan Stankovic was arrested on 9 July 2002 by French and German soldiers of the KFOR in south eastern Bosnia. | |     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 : | | | Serbia and montenegro | | | date of birth : | | | 10.03.1969 | | | also known as : | | | Rasa | | | last time seen : | | | Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | | | period of charges : | | | 08.04.1992 - 07.1992 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 29.06.2007 |
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